In 2019 developers in Bristol, United Kingdom, released a prototype of artificial skin meant to emulate the real thing that can in turn be paired with smart devices.
Marc Teyssier, one of the scientists involved with the prototypes, explained on his blogsite that,
Skin-On Interfaces are devices that augment existing devices with realistic skin.
Human skin is the best interface for interaction. I propose this new paradigm in which interactive devices have their own artificial skin, thus enabling new forms of input gestures for end-users.
When we interact with others, we use skin as interfaces. However, the objects of mediated communication – such as the smartphone – still has a cold interface that doesn’t allow natural interaction and input.
Teyssier explained how he and his team made the skin and what it is made from. Underneath the fake skin sensors, chips, and wires have been soldered into the faux fleshly surfaces, which can then be linked to smart phones and computers to simulate our touch and feel senses.
New Scientist reported that Teyssier said, “I wanted to pinch my phone.”
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
I think this meme encompasses this oddity:
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
I cannot claim to know if the two are related, but I do find it interesting that the CEO of Nokia has explicitly revealed that by 2030 the smart phone will be obsolete because it will have been integrated into people. Perhaps this science experiment was a precursor to that?
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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Who designed this ghastly device, Ed Gein?
Seems pretty creepy to me. Very Nazi-esque…..like making lamp shades out of human skin. Yeah, they did that.
Just looking at the picture it made me want to throw up!
The issue with smartphones is that they sound very appealing as a utility tool, but few bothered to realize what costs and abominations would arise from it. Tic-tok, 5G, and now this abomination. Not to mention the stupidity of texting and driving albeit that one was going on when the old button slate and flip phones where king in terms of wireless communications.