A brand new smartphone controlling technology named DouSkin has just been developed in the form of a … tattoo! Let’s take a look to see what this tool is capable of!
DouSkin: Brilliant smartphone controller!
Have you ever imagined you can control your smartphone just by tapping your tattoo? It’s not a dream anymore! With this new technology, you can totally do that! This technology takes the form of a tattoo lying on your skin. It was developed by MIT Media Lab and Microsoft Research. DouSkin is inspired by the currently trending flash tattoo that appears frequently in the wrists of many fashionistas.
To be more specific, DouSkin technology is developed by Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, a PhD student at the Media Lab in Tawan. She decided to install some technology into this aesthetics. She explained in her promoting video that there has been a great culture of cosmetics and street styles, which allows everybody to very easily change and edit their appearance whenever they want! And she was like “why don’t we bring that culture to a whole new level?”.
And Cindy has arrived with DouSkin. This is a combination of both fashion and technology! Besides controlling smartphones, this tattoo can even controls some other smart devices like laptops and computers. This tattoo is made of gold metal leaf, which is a cheap, robust and especially skin-friendly material. For beginners, DouSkin can be turned into a traditional interfaces with 2D trackpads, sliders and buttons! For advanced users, this one can be turned into anything they want!
DouSkin: Not just a controller!
DouSkin even features soft displays on our skin. These displays are actually the ink-like qualities of thermochromic pigments. So when the body temperature changes, the tattoo changes its color! Moreover, this tattoo can communicate via NFC! This allows users to store their data in the tattoo and later transfer the data into their smartphones or other NFC devices. With this technology, we have the right to hope for many many other future technology that combines science and fashion together!