Control Your Smartphone By Touching Your Hair
Channel: IntoConnection
Date: 2015-05-05

Yeah, it is the 21ste century. And yes, we are quite used to some extreme innovations. But this beats everything. Katia Vega, from sunny Rio de Janeiro, is the inventor of the emerging field within wearables, namely: Beauty Technology. A wearable computing subfield that uses the body’s surface as interactive platform by integrating technology into beauty products applied directly to one’s skin, fingernails and hair. 

One of the first products, for example, was Conductive Make-up. This connects sensors and actuators to the face. Another one are false eyelashes that are chemically metalized and react to your blinking. Now, the latest innovation is Hairware: a wearable you can wear in your hair.

The hairwear are touch sensitive extensions. Sounds weird, but it’s great if you want to control something without bringing attention to the action: just run your fingers through your hair. Katia’s Hairware, uses metalized hairpieces in combination with non-conductive hair pieces. That’s how she is able to keep the pieces from reacting to your skin. When used with bluetooth, it’s possible to use many smartphone functions. 


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