What if you could play your favourite song just by touching a point on your palm or write that email using a keypad on your forearm? Absurd? Or a dream? No, to both!

Scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Germany have come up with a revolutionary concept called iSkin that will enable you to control your phone by touching areas on your body. In this innovation, the pressure-sensitive sensors are hidden beneath a thin silicone rubber layer which can be placed over the top of your skin. These pressure sensitive sensors are made from a special silicone layer that has carbon particles running through it. This can be incorporated even as tattoo designs. According to Martin Weigl, a co-developer of the project this new technology has many advantages such as flexibility and stretch ability which will help and enable manufacturers to explore the possibility of new designs.

The sensor would find use in controlling music player and keyboards. The prototype at its nascent stage is connected to a computer using wires but it is hoped that with advancement in this technology it could start using its own integrated control system. There are also plans to let a kinetic energy system power the iSkin, paving a way to avoid battery complications.

It is a possibility that it would never have to be removed or charged up. Though the institute doesn’t plan to take this concept beyond the stage of prototype, it surely will act as a catalyst in the implementation of this concept for real.

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Author:Technology Blog