Gizmodo reports that Marc Teyssier and researchers at Telecom Paris in France have developed a home-reproducible touch and pressure sensitive artificial skin for phone cases.
It's called a Skin-On Interface (since the name "beefy pinchy skin chunk" undoubtedly triggered several legal red flags)—artificial skin that's been programmed to understand gestural and touch inputs in addition to particular emotions these interactions are tied to. A light tap lets your phone know you want its attention, clenching it in a tight grip reads as anger, while stroking it can register as comfort and certainly nothing else even remotely salacious.
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One of the potential uses listed in the proof of concept video for Skin-On above is "tactile communication with a virtual avatar."
A line of research that would certainly lead to various happy endings.
The next step for these abominations is the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology in New Orleans, where the team of Telecom Paris, HCI Sorbonne University, and the French National Center for Scientific Research researchers will present their work.
Teyssier stated that he didn't start out with any particular final application in mind, but rather that the goal was "to propose a possible future with anthropomorphic devices."
Want to build your own just in time for Halloween?
More information: https://marcteyssier.com/projects/skin-on/
Open-Hardware part: https://muca-board.github.io
(Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday October 21 2019, @10:38AM (1 child)
Finally, cell phones can feel PAIN as I smash their useless toy asses to death with a hammer.
Now, if only their users could still feel pain.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @10:58AM
Feel me, press me, become me.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @10:52AM
Need this. Want this. Must feel.
All alone now.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @01:58PM
All hail the new flesh
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday October 21 2019, @02:40PM
Even more data collected!!!
Account abandoned.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:13PM
It is more incentive to leave the vibrating phone in your front pocket.
The people who rely on government handouts and refuse to work should be kicked out of congress.