This is crazy! Computer people at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are developing a system for "allowing the skin to be used as a finger input surface"-basically turning the human body into one big computer keypad. Soon, apparently (watch!), we will be playing Tetris on little screens on our palms, using our fingers as joysticks! I am not creative enough to figure out the porn/masturbation possibilities for this technology-I'm sure someone in California is already hard at work-but Sarah Palin is going to be able to do like a whole PowerPoint thing for her next interview.
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Big deal. I've been using my wife to Tune In Tokyo for a while now.
All this and hosting The Bachelor? Chris Harrison is amazing!
Will we be able to put a mute button on other people?
(Brought to you by the makers of short-sleeved shirts.)
Keystroke has a whole new meaning.
Why do I get the feeling that Stelarc has something to do with this and that we're about to be punished with a horrible piece of performance art involving his penis.
http://hatethefuture.tumblr.com/post/426501912/my-arm-is-stuck-or-something-try-quitting
Is that a double-penetration movie on your arm or are you just happy to see me?
"I am not creative enough to figure out the porn/masturbation possibilities for this technology"
If there's one thing I know from my time at CMU, it's that this probably started out from those possibilities.
Skinput it down. Skin, SKIN, stop. Skin, enough. No, I didn't click that, I was stretching. Skin. SKIN, STOP. No, that wasn't a transverse wave on my skin. That's PLENTY, skin, stop it. st-.STOP.