Turn Your Arm Into A Touchscreen. Kinda!!

People are going crazy for technology that they can wear on their body or have it integrated into their body, it's like a next big step towards being Tony Stark and owning a fancy piece of technology. But unlike Tony Stark you are not getting an iron suite of your own but you will definitely embrace this new technology more than you like your smartwatch.

Smartwatch's are with us for quite some time and they are already winning heart with their miniature looks and full of productivity apps for which you don't have to keep checking your smartphone. But the new research at the University of Carnegie Mellon University have unveiled a new “first-of-its-kind” smartwatch that can turn your arm into a touchscreen. The prototype LumiWatch projects an interactive surface area on the wearer’s arm or hand, allowing them to tap and swipe on their skin to use the watch. What is more fascinating is that you get an interface that is 5 times bigger than your conventional smartwatch. isn't this cool?

The watch features a 15 lumen scanned-laser projector, continuous 2D finger tracking, a Qualcomm 1.2 Ghz quad-core CPU, 768MB of RAM, 4GB flash memory and a 740 mAh lithium ion battery with Bluetooth and Wi-Fi capability. It runs on Android 5.1. The watch lasts over one hour of continuous projection.

“Although obstacles remain for practical adoption, we believe our work demonstrates the first functional projection smartwatch system and constitutes a significant advance in the state of the art,” the researchers wrote in a paper, titled “LumiWatch: On-Arm Projected Graphics and Touch Input.”   

While we have to wait till the mass commercialization is done. You can surely look at the prototype and have an idea how it's gonna work on your wrist.