Finding the keypad on your cellphone or music player a bit cramped? Maybe your forearm could be more accommodating. It could become part of a skin-based interface that effectively turns your body into a touchscreen.
Called Skinput, the system is a marriage of two technologies: the ability to detect the ultralow-frequency sound produced by tapping the skin with a finger, and the microchip-sized “pico” projectors now found in some cellphones.
The system beams a keyboard or menu onto the user’s forearm and hand from a projector housed in an armband. An acoustic detector, also in the armband, then calculates which part of the display you want to activate.
But how does the system know which icon, button or finger you tapped? Chris Harrison at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, working with Dan Morris and Desney Tan at Microsoft’s research lab in Redmond, Washington, exploit the way our skin, musculature and skeleton combine to make distinctive sounds when we tap on different parts of the arm, palm, fingers and thumb.
impressive stuff…..Google’s Liquid Galaxy is engineer Jason Holt’s 20% time project, a wraparound view of 8 LCD screens providing a truly immersive experience of Google Earth and Street View.
A stop motion animation represented by Limow and created by Sam3 in Grottaglie, Roma, Barcelona and Murcia.
Nicolas Roope, founder and creative director of POKE London, talks at the German Webby Night.
from Web 2.0 Expo NY
the Meaning of Life – stop motion from Vytautas Alechnavicius on Vimeo.
Haiku project – stop motion based on Marcia’s haiku:
“The Meaning of Life”
She asked me about
The meaning of life,
didnt Know what to say— blank
Song: Outside – To Forgive But Not Forget
Crew: Vytautas Alechnavicius, Goda Jankute, Sergejs Radkevics,
Add.Help: Christina and Grace
http://eportfolio.partyofdreamers.com
At a TED talk earlier in the year, Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so.
Henry Jenkins is the director, Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. In this short video he discusses the power of media in a 21 century trans-mediated world. A world where converging technologies and cultures give rise to a new media landscape.
Freakonomics author Steven Levitt presents new data on the finances of drug dealing. Contrary to popular myth, he says, being a street-corner crack dealer isn’t lucrative.
What happens when an unbelievable offer of $10000 risk free money is actually genuine?
Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their dreams…
David Heineimeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and partner at 37signals in Chicago, says that planning is guessing, and for a start-up, the focus must be on today and not on tomorrow. He argues that constraints–fiscal, temporal, or otherwise–drive innovation and effective problem-solving. The most important thing, Hansson believes, is to make a dent in the universe with your company. This clip was taken from Stanford University’s Entrepreneurship Corner
