"Human touchscreen on your arm" is now a reality - PHOTO

Microsoft Research and Carnegie Mellon University developers have been hard at work on the futuristic contraption that combines a mini-projector with a sophisticated sensor to produce the flesh-bound touchcreen phenomenon.

The projector creates a changing display while the sensor can tell which part of a person’s arm is being tapped, resulting in an iPhone-style interface that works on the skin itself.

Skinput can apparently be used to control audio devices, make phone calls, navigate basic browsing systems and play straightforward games like the old-school classic Tetris – all with a few taps on your own arm.

"Our skin has been overlooked as an input canvas and is one that happens to always travel with us,” observe Chris Harrison, Desney Tan and Dan Morris in a Microsoft Research paper.

“Furthermore, proprioception - our sense of how our body is configured in three-dimensional space - allows us to accurately interact with our bodies in an eyes-free manner.”

The team reckon we can expect human interfaces to emerge in the next five years.


/Metro.co.uk/

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