{"id":518903,"date":"2010-04-07T07:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=7994"},"modified":"2010-04-07T07:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T11:50:27","slug":"and-now-for-something-completely-different-your-skin-is-a-touchpad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518903","title":{"rendered":"And Now for Something Completely Different: Your Skin is a Touchpad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-7995\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/07\/and-now-for-something-completely-different-your-skin-is-a-touchpad\/new-technology-uses-skin-as-touchpad\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7995\" title=\"New technology uses skin as touchpad\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/New-technology-uses-skin-as-touchpad.jpg\" alt=\"Carnegie Mellon University students develops technology to use human body as a touchpad\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>When it comes to the future of computing, why not skip the middleman?\u00a0 That&#8217;s the basic idea behind <a title=\"Skinput website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisharrison.net\/projects\/skinput\" >Skinput<\/a>, a technology that skips the whole notion of using manufactured touchpads or keyboards to interface with electronic devices.\u00a0 What could be more simple, elegant and sustainable than using your own skin, which you already have, which lasts a lifetime, and which you will never leave behind in a taxi?\u00a0 Skinput was developed by a team headed by Carnegie Mellon University  student Chris Harrison, as a way to enable people <a title=\"press  release on eurekalert.org\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/pub_releases\/2010-04\/cmu-cms040610.php\" >to manipulate ever-smaller electronic devices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though new technologies are bringing us closer to molecular-sized computers, the size of touchpads and keyboards is still somewhat limited by the size of the average human finger.\u00a0 Freed from that equation, electronic devices like phones and MP3 players could shrink down to truly microscopic sizes &#8211; and that could have some important implications for e-waste, energy efficiency and the sustainable future of electronics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/07\/and-now-for-something-completely-different-your-skin-is-a-touchpad\/#more-7994\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to the future of computing, why not skip the middleman?\u00a0 That&#8217;s the basic idea behind Skinput, a technology that skips the whole notion of using manufactured touchpads or keyboards to interface with electronic devices.\u00a0 What could be more simple, elegant and sustainable than using your own skin, which you already have, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}