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Help, I Can’t Unsee These Faux-Flesh Phone Cases
A Bug Lets Any Fingerprint Unlock the Galaxy S10 and Note 10, and Samsung B
Auto extracted Text……Though that fact didn’t deter Marc Teyssier at Telecom Paris in France and his colleagues from developing these seriously disturbing phone cases that mimic the squishy haptics of human skin.
It’s a concept I’m positive the folks at Netflix are already planning to steal for their next Black Mirror episode: Slap one of these flesh slabs onto your device and it’ll be able to detect and respond to every stroke, poke, and tickle like skin would for several potential applications that are not kinky (and I assume many, many more that are).
It’s called a Skin-On Interface (since the name “beefy pinchy skin chunk” undoubtedly triggered several legal red flags)—artificial skin that’s been programmed to understand gestural and touch inputs in addition to particular emotions these interactions are tied to.
One of the potential uses listed in the proof of concept video for Skin-On above is “tactile communication with a virtual avatar.” If this project does succeed in moving beyond the prototype stage, you know it’s going to have some NSFW-as-fuck applications.
The interface looks as unsettling squishy as you’d expect, which makes sense considering the concept first came from a desire to pinch his phone, Teyssier told the New Scientist.
Now that mediated communication is performed through the devices, we [have] lost the sense of touch communication modality.
All the software and hardware for the team’s main prototypes took three months to build, and nailing down a material for the artificial skin itself proved a particularly tricky process .
“The constraint was to develop something that was stretchable and that can also detect touch,” Teyssier told the New Scientist.
And just like human skin, it’s made up of multiple layers: pliable copper wire between an epidermis and hypo dermis of silicon molded to resemble the texture of skin.
The team also covered a laptop touchpad and smartwatch with Skin-On Interfaces to demonstrate its potential uses beyond just phones
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