The DuoSkin from MIT and Microsoft Research enables users to control their mobile devices, display information, and store information on their skin while also making a personal style statement. Fabricated from gold metal leaf and inspired by the new trend of flash tattoos, these on-skin devices are ushering in a new generation of wearables.
For starters, these connected tattoos can take the form of “on-skin input elements that resemble traditional user interfaces, such as buttons, sliders, and 2D trackpads.” That means that DuoSkin turns your body’s surface into a trackpad or a virtual control knob that could adjust, say, the volume of your iPhone.
