A touch-responsive fabric armband — for flexible keyboards, wearable sketchpads

It’s time to roll up your sleeves for the next advance in wearable technology — a fabric armband that’s actually a touch pad. Researchers say they have devised a way to make playing video games, sketching cartoons and signing documents easier. Their proof-of-concept silk armband turns a person’s forearm into a keyboard or sketchpad. The three-layer, touch-responsive material interprets what a user draws or types and converts it into images on a computer.


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Source: ScienceDaily