Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Microsoft Wants You to Control Your Phone by Touching Yourself

    
Kinect's "using your body as a controller" feature was one of technology’s big hits last year--not only have users had fun dancing up a storm and racing cars with official Kinect games, but a whole community has emerged to dream up new and inventive ways of hacking the system that tracks 20 joints in your body.

  " Keyboards and mice are so '99. The interface of the future will be your own body."
  One of the projects they’re working on is "Skinput," a system that would allow you to control devices simply by hitting specific points on your arm. Not a device on your arm. Just your arm itself.


Read more : http://www.fastcompany.com/1732673/microsoft-skinput-hands-free-device-controllers

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