Chris Harrison, a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University and a former intern at Microsoft Research, has developed a prototype where you can control some of your I-phone functions on your arm such as texting answering calls. The prototype is called Skinput. The way it works is you have certain hand movements and sign languages using your hand that triggers the function that you want. The Skin-put is also provided with a projector called the pico projector that allows you to display an image of a digital keyboard on a person's forearm. So, using Skinput, someone could send text messages by tapping his or her arm in certain places without pulling the phone out of a pocket or purse. You might be wondering how does the icons come onto your hands, well there is a small band that is placed on your hand which is connected to the I phone somehow allowing it to display the icons onto your hands also letting you to click on it. Pretty amazing, but then again it's America.
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