Fine, we’ll tell you about the gross fake skin phone. All over Twitter people couldn’t stop talking about this phone and its new flesh, making all sorts of comparisons to the gooey living computers of Existenz. But all I wanted to do was burn it with fire. However, before this fleshy phone and its descendants become our new masters, we might as well learn how it works.
Skin-On is Bristol research project concocted by Marc Teyssier, Gilles Bailly, Catherine Pelachaud, Eric Lecolinet, Andrew Conn and Anne Roudaut. Starting from the disturbing yet not inaccurate premise of “human skin is the best interface for interaction,” the team wanted to give devices like mobile phones that same level of interaction. And whether or not they should have, it looks like the definitely did.
In these videos we can see how devices wrapped in Skin-On react to different stimuli just as anything else wrapped in skin might. Tickle your phone. Spank it and poke it deeper than ever. Pinch its… cheeks? Skin-On can sense all of it and feed that data to whatever app or game you’re using. It’s supposed to open up a new intuitive language of gestures, touch screens taken to the next slimy level. Cool.
Skin-On is also easy to make. No human sacrifice required. On the website the team goes into great detail about fabricating the various textured layers, weaving in the electronics, and shaping the blobs. There are even two different varieties of Skin-On: a “Simple” version that looks a bit like deli meat and an “Ultrarealistic” version that looks like someone took off a chunk of your white dad’s dry foot.
If you want to get your hands on this fake skin before it gets its hands on you, you’re in luck because the Skin-On hardware and software are both open-source. For more on fake skin, here’s how the technology could help burn victims feels again and how it could help virtual reality feel more realistic.
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