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DIY Faux-Flesh Active Phone Covers

posted by Fnord666 on Monday October 21 2019, @10:24AM   Printer-friendly
from the skinterface dept.

RandomFactor writes:

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.

cough

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

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  • (Score: 2) by SomeGuy on Monday October 21 2019, @10:38AM (1 child)

    by SomeGuy (5632) on Monday October 21 2019, @10:38AM (#909837)

    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

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @10:58AM (#909841)

      Feel me, press me, become me.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @10:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @10:52AM (#909839)

    Need this. Want this. Must feel.

    All alone now.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @01:58PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 21 2019, @01:58PM (#909873)

    All hail the new flesh

  • (Score: 2) by Bot on Monday October 21 2019, @02:40PM

    by Bot (3902) on Monday October 21 2019, @02:40PM (#909884) Journal

    Even more data collected!!!

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:13PM

    by DannyB (5839) on Tuesday October 22 2019, @02:13PM (#910322) Journal

    It is more incentive to leave the vibrating phone in your front pocket.

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