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Microsoft's 'Skinput' uses your flesh as a touchscreen

Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 3:20am

Carnegie Mellon University's Chris Harrison and Microsoft's Dan Morris and Desney Tan have all teamed up to create "Skinput," a system which has you using your own flesh as an input device to play games and music, as well as...

Snackbot, the vending machine that comes to you

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 - 4:44am

Two years of work for Carnegie Mellon University's Paul Rybski and his team of students, the combined minds of 17 other faculty members, and a $20,000 cocktail including a laser navigation system, sonar sensors and stereo camera-eyes all led to...

Microsoft Surface turned into the ultimate D&D board

Kevin Hall

Tuesday, October 20, 2009 - 2:04pm

Say hello to Michael. He's one of the developers on the Surfacesapes project over at Carnegie Mellon University, and he's about to walk you through just about the best use for Microsoft's Surface multitouch table in the video above....

Scratch input device developed; cats get ready to Twitter

Monday, August 10, 2009 - 9:43am

When you run your fingernail over a hard surface like wood or drywall, it produces a high-frequency sound. It's barely audible to the naked ear (unless the surface happens to be a chalkboard), but the sound happens to be very...

Inflatable buttons could drastically improve touchscreens

Monday, July 20, 2009 - 9:33am

Finally, one weakness of touchscreens could soon be addressed with these inflatable buttons. You know how you've gotten used to the buttons on your remote control, able to operate just about any function in the dark? Carnegie Mellon University is...

The Scarab, a robotic rover that will explore the dark craters of the Moon

Kevin Hall

Wednesday, October 15, 2008 - 7:52am

Carnegie Mellon University loves robots and, more than that, a challenge: How do you get at possible minerals around the Moon's crater-studded south pole where there's no light for energy, or to see what you're doing? The CMU team's...

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Microsoft's 'Skinput' uses your flesh as a touchscreen

Snackbot, the vending machine that comes to you

Microsoft Surface turned into the ultimate D&D board

Scratch input device developed; cats get ready to Twitter

Inflatable buttons could drastically improve touchscreens

The Scarab, a robotic rover that will explore the dark craters of the Moon

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