Turning your skin into a touchscreen

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4 Mar 2010

From Popular Science:

The future of touchscreen interfaces is: you? A project between a Carnegie Mellon researcher and a couple of creative thinkers over at Microsoft Research have created Skinput, a Bluetooth-enabled device that allows you to use your own skin as a peripheral input device for devices like cell phones, MP3 players or gaming consoles.

This is one of those things that’s better shown than explained:

It’s clearly a long way off from commercialization. But as they’ve demonstrated, this has a lot of potential for keeping devices in pockets and out of hands, allowing people to stay focused on their activity rather than on operating their devices. This also seems like one component of a potential future system that converts sign language communication to synthesized speech.


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6 Responses to Turning your skin into a touchscreen

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Marie

March 17th, 2010 at 6:15 pm

BSL interpreters are provided by police stations, courts, and the NHS for those that need them. Deaf people just need to ask for an interpreter. Those are all govt institutions. Deaf people are entitled to an interpreter by law.
Interpreters are regiustered and approved, they have to hold BSL LEvel 3 plus succesfully complete a course at CAP.

Classes are also available for staff in other industries to learn basic BSL and are very popular.

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winston1smith

March 19th, 2010 at 8:17 am

I have worked in the fields of print communication and media during more than 15 years and I can say that the problem you experienced is understandable.

Science is science, and physics is hard and highly rationalistic science. So, it doesn't mix well with religion! About what you call "highly sensitive subjects" I don't know what you mean but such mention does little to add credit to your work after you were talking about religion.

So, better looking for editing houses having a department specialized in esoterism, psychic things and other UFO stories and theories, which may be interested in your work.

Nobel prize and physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a book mixing philosophy and its down-to-earth principe of uncertainty, but this book doesn't belongs to the science category.

Phisicist Jean Charron got away from quantum mechanics at some point when he suggested that certain particle he named "eon" has a "memory" of past events. Although Jean Charron's books are filled with complex equation and formulas and so it adresses to a limited public familiar with the field of quantum mechanics, this example shows where is the limit beyond which your are no longer talking about science and rationality.

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| A | L | E |

March 20th, 2010 at 12:25 pm

Check it out by yourself.

Here is a fair website that has some basic vocab and idioms:

Anyway, if you can I recommend to take an ASL course at some community college or join a deaf club for gaining the grammar and non manuals that you are going to need for developing good communication skills.

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kevin h

March 28th, 2010 at 4:43 am

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raina_vissora

May 16th, 2010 at 8:01 am

before PS?
SNES, great games like, Donkey Kong country, Super Mario world, Megaman X, Chrono Trigger, etc.

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RPM

May 21st, 2010 at 2:27 am

i LOVE those! well her are some i've done in the past… water, leaves, water falls, snow, ice, ice bergs, the sun, the moon, trees, or a lake.

that's just some. if you want more ask me.

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