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
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
Big Thoughts at The Bell House with Reggie Watts from Tom Mason on Vimeo.
Big Thoughts at The Bell House is an interview-based music series that plumbs the minds of traveling musicians.
Filmed backstage at The Bell House, a 1920’s warehouse-turned-music venue in the Gowanus section of Brooklyn, each session begins with the question: “what have you been thinking about on the road in the wee hours of the morning?” What ensues is a free-flowing conversation culminating in a musical challenge: to create an improvised piece of music inspired by the topic at hand.
All performances are presented without digital audio effects.
Created by Tom Mason, Camera by Simon Doolittle
For more on Reggie Watts, visit www.reggiewatts.com
For more on The Bell House, visit www.thebellhouseny.com
