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# Our Bodies, Our Controllers: How Our Skin Might Be the Next Touchpad.
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/our-bodies-our-controllers-how-our-skin-might-be-next-touchpad/
- Published: 2012-03-06T18:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:09:28.000Z
- Description: Tired of janky game controllers? Perhaps your forearm or forehead might be more appropriate. Desney Tan and Scott Saponas recently demoed Skinput, their technology that creates an interface using “bio-acoustics” to create touch-sensitive surfaces of our body. It’d be a bit like touching your finger
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

Tired of janky game controllers? Perhaps your forearm or forehead might be more appropriate. [Desney Tan and Scott Saponas](http://poptech.org/popcasts/desney%5Ftan%5Fand%5Fscott%5Fsaponas%5Four%5Fbodies%5Fas%5Fthe%5Finterface?ref=killscreen.com) recently demoed [Skinput](http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/groups/cue/skinput/?ref=killscreen.com), their technology that creates an interface using “bio-acoustics” to create touch-sensitive surfaces of our body. It’d be a bit like touching your fingers to your neck to deliver a finishing move in *Hitman*: “We’ve made cool technologies that profoundly shape how we live. The bottleneck is in the interface. The challenge is to create richer ways for humans and computers to communicate,” says Tan.

[Watch the rest of the presentation](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFAPl3qtSAU&ref=killscreen.com).

*\-Jamin Warren*

\[Via [PopTech](http://poptech.org/blog/our%5Fbodies%5Fare%5Fremote%5Fcontrols%5Fdesney%5Ftan%5Fand%5Fscott%5Fsaponas%5Fexplain?ref=killscreen.com)\]