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Weird Face Mask the Next Level of Multitouch?
From CNET:
Hard to believe that before Apple made multitouch cool, the most we ever “touched” our PC was touch typing. Now, here’s Photoelastic Touch, a more tactile form of interaction that enters into “Minority Report” realm (still one of the coolest future tech shows) by not even requiring users to touch the screen.
Japanese researchers led by Hideki Koike at the University of Electro-Communications in Tokyo used a face mask comprising see-through gel as a haptic interface, allowing users to press, pinch, or touch the transparent mold to control the face on the LCD. In this case, the actions prompted a furrowed eye brow or eye movement.
[Read more at CNET]
