http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/This is actually an old concept. I saw this technology in the Microsoft research labs maybe a year or so..theres nothing new here..just new to the presses.

but none-the-less, its still a great leap and innovative thinking on MSFT's behalf...and yet Dick Brass still thinks MSFT has lost its creativeness.....wonder what counterpart Sony or Apple has made thats similar to this??
hmmmm....nothing ----- wonder what his next speechis going to be]]>Mar 2nd 2010 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/
What's the deal? I control my gear by touching myself, all the time!]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/]]>Apr 20th 2010 6:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Or useless?]]>Mar 2nd 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/
if Romo had that Cowboys could have made it to Superbowl!]]>Mar 2nd 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/No definitely remarkable. I would jog with this all the time.
I could see what you're saying. It's either THE thing you need, or you just don't have a use for it.

But man, running with this thing. There'd be no reason to stop]]>Mar 2nd 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/
The tetris on the palm is freakinggggg awesome. Wow. Thats all I can say.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/you could probably just attach it to your glasses or an earpiece so that everytime you look at your forearm, you see the display. Besides, all that gear will get tinier and tinier the longer it's developed...]]>Mar 2nd 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/HELL YEA!]]>Mar 2nd 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/This is nothing new!]]>Mar 2nd 2010 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/
I could totally see this becoming popular and all the rage. I can also see the adult toy makers making full use of this tech.....]]>Mar 2nd 2010 4:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Simple gestures could fix that. Think voice recognition where you say "Listen" and it starts listening. "Stop listening" ensures you can have a conversation without it trying to recognize things. The easiest way I could see that seems to work in the video is a hard fist. Clench on, clench off. Or, as previously mentioned, a simple standby type switch on the armband. Gest]]>Mar 2nd 2010 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 4:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 5:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 5:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/
This sort of minimal movement detection activating something has been part of disability and amputee tech for over ten years. An example is where movements in the pectorals are detected and translated into movements in an augmented arm.

If anything this MS version is rather basic and not actually in use.

Now that I think about it facial twitch readers that convert into computer control, often for speech synth are available for severely disabled people, also for more than ten years, maybe 15, possibly even longer.

This is old tech]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 5:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/It's not exactly the holographic interface I dream about but it gets us closer to the idea of not needing too many peripherals. It might in some ways be a superior input method to something like a touchscreen or pure projections as your arm is likely to give you some physical feedback when tapping on it.]]>Mar 2nd 2010 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 6:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 6:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 7:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/lol...you said 'poke yourself"....]]>Mar 2nd 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 9:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html]]>Mar 2nd 2010 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 9:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Mar 2nd 2010 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/Must, get, for, me, and, have, GF, umh, u know play some MS pinball..]]>Mar 2nd 2010 10:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/02/skinput-because-touchscreens-never-felt-right-anyway-video/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-VjUKAsao]]>Mar 2nd 2010 11:08AM