Creepy human-like skin makes your phone ticklish and pinchable
19 October 2019
Marc Teyssier at Telecom Paris in France and his colleagues from the University of Bristol and Sorbonne Université have devised an artificial skin for interactive devices that responds to touch. The skin is able to detect a variety of gestures, including sliding, stretching and rotation.
Involved researchers : Marc Teyssier, Eric Lecolinet (Télécom Paris), Gilles Bailly, Catherine Pelachaud (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, ISIR), Andrew Conn, Anne Roudaut (University of Bristol)
Read more >> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2220453-creepy-human-like-skin-makes-your-phone-ticklish-and-pinchable/
Smartphones are soulless commercial product, but 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.
Press review
- BFM : Human Skin Phone Cases, Anyone?
- Boingboing : Mobile phone covered with synthetic human skin
- Creative Bloq : Fleshy iPhone skin is the stuff of nightmares
- Daily Mail : The fake-skin cover that makes your phone TICKLISH: Scientists create case that reacts like flesh when pinched and caressed
- DailyStar : Scientists develop ‘artificial skin’ for robots to ‘feel’ human sensations
- DesignBoom : Scientists develop faux-flesh to give touch devices a ‘skin-on’ interface
- Digital Trends : Phone case with artificial skin enables new input gestures, may fuel nightmares
- Digitin New : ‘Artificial Skin’ could change the way we interact with our smartphones
- FoxNews : These creepy artificial skin cases makes phones pinchable, ticklish
- Her : These artificial skin phone cases are the stuff of nightmares
- Independent (Ireland) : Just give me a tickle on the phone when you have a minute…
- Independant (UK) : Scientists create ‘artificial skin’ that could make smartphones ticklish
- Indianexpress : Scientists create artificial skin that could make a phone feel tickles and pinching
- iNews : Artificial human-like skin allows you to tickle or pinch your smartphone
- Mashable : Phone cases made of artificial human skin are 100% pure nope
- Metro : Scientists build ‘artificial skin’ interface that can be added to phones and laptops
- News Hub : Creepy’ human skin phone cover responds to touch
- News18 : Human Touch’: Artificial Skin Will Now Allow You to Tickle or Pinch Your Smartphone
- Science Daily : Artificial skin creates first ticklish devices
- Sky : The phone ‘skin’ that can ‘feel the user’s grasp’
- Standard : Bizarre ‘artificial skin’ makes mobile phones ticklish
- USA Today : Faux flesh phone cases: Does your device need a covering that feels like human skin?