Remember The Sixth Sense from MIT introduced about a year ago? A truly innovative technology that augments the physical world around us. Today I stumbled upon another very interesting piece of technology that appropriates the body as an input surface, Skinput.

Appropriating the human body as an input device is appealing not only because we have roughly two square meters of external surface area, but also because much of it is easily accessible by our hands (e.g., arms, upper legs, torso). Furthermore, proprioception (our sense of how our body is configured in three-dimensional space) allows us to accurately interact with our bodies in an eyes-free manner. For example, we can readily flick each of our fingers, touch the tip of our nose, and clap our hands together without visual assistance. Few external input devices can claim this accurate, eyes-free input characteristic and provide such a large interaction area.

This one is equally amazing and mind-blowing as The Sixth Sense. I could definitely get used to technologies like these in my everyday life.

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