Tag: Carnegie Mellon University
Skin buttons will turn your wrist into an interactive device [VIDEO]
Granted, this device is still in the prototype phase but, it's an interesting development.
By using small laser projectors, the skin around a smart watch...
We cannot choose the cards we are dealt but, it’s how you play the...
Carnegie Mellon University used to run a lecture series called "The Last Lecture".
The premise was that, if this was your last lecture before you...
The iPad? Meh. The future of tech is touching yourself.
What comes after the iPad touch screen interface? Will we all soon be starring in our own private Minority Report? Enter "skinput": -- bio-acoustic sensing technology that allows the human body itself to be used as an input device. According to Carnegie Mellon University researcher Chris Harrison, different body locations give off "acoustically distinct" sound waves when touched, opening up a world of possibility for touching feely techies.
The best way to gain attention in the information age
In the 1920s, Ernest Hemmingway sat around a table of fellow writers and bet them that he could write a story in just six words. With great disbelief, the writers took his bet. Hemmingway quickly wrote six words on a napkin and passed it around the table. The words were: “For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn.” On the issue of brevity, Hemmingway was a man ahead of his time.
