(Credit: Beauty Technology)
If you can wear electronics on your wrists, in your clothing, and even as stick-on tattoos, why not paint them on your skin?
Computer scientist Katia Vega from the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has created what she is calling Beauty Technology, a range of wearable cosmetics that conduct electricity and control devices. Blinklifier, demonstrated at the Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference in the UK, lets the wearer power devices on and off just by blinking.
(Credit: Beauty Technology)
It consists of a set of metallized false eyelashes and conductive eyeliner. Together, they track the contraction of the eye muscles and the movement of the eyelid when the wearer blinks. When the eyelashes touch each other, they close the circuit, sending the activation or deactivation signal.
Vega has … [Read more]
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