A new prototype that a graduate student Chris Harrison has been designing would bring the "touch" world to a new level. He is designing a new technology called Skinput. It is basically turing a person's palm and arm into a computer. Image being able to tap two fingers together and make a phone call or use your finger to move an image on your palm. It would reinvent the way we look at technology. It's like something out of a movie.
It's been testing for the past 8 months and Microsoft has signed on to help. They've been thinking it would give them a major lead when it comes to futuristic touch technology. Dan Morris, a Microsoft researcher says that they have been working on it and depending on how fast they are that it would not be out for another two years to seven years. Harrison says that it would be like the iPod touch but on your self. It will move with your arm, pick up vibrations. And they have already tested it on people in Seattle.
Personally I think this technology is amazing. It apparently from this CNN report, it isn't the only prototype that is coming to surface. It is moving past the computer age and onto something more profound.
There is a video on CNN check it out. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/04/19/microsoft.skinput/index.html
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