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🗓️ 25 April 2018
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Cody Gough and Ashley Hamer discuss the following stories to help you learn something new in just a few minutes:
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:05.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:06.0 | We've got three stories from Curiosity.com to help you get smarter in just a few minutes. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we'll talk about a smart watch that turns your whole arm into a touch screen, some surprising science around air travels, and how Ariana Huffington's bedtime routine can give you a stress-free day. |
| 0:21.0 | What's satisfy some curiosity? |
| 0:23.0 | All right Ashley, what's the biggest problem with smart watches? |
| 0:26.0 | They're supposed to do everything that your smartphone does, but they're super tiny. |
| 0:29.0 | Right, well, researchers at Carnegie Mellon's Future Interfaces Group have a prototype to fix that. |
| 0:35.6 | What is it? |
| 0:36.6 | It's called Skin Track and it turns your wrist into a touch screen. |
| 0:40.4 | It uses sensors mounted on the side and you wear a ring on your opposite hand and that's all it takes for the watch to detect exactly where you're swiping and pressing and gesturing. |
| 0:51.0 | Wait, so what's what's on your skin? Nothing's on your skin? Nothing's on your skin? |
| 0:54.0 | Nothing's on your skin? |
| 0:55.0 | You just touch random places and then what happens? |
| 0:58.0 | Right, so it basically lets you drag apps around your arms. |
| 1:00.4 | So you can tap anywhere and open the app app which means you can put Spotify in your |
| 1:04.6 | elbow you can put your fitness tracker on your mid-forearm and of course you can put the |
| 1:08.6 | curiosity app on your wrist. That's right right where it's available that's great |
| 1:11.8 | of course then they have another program Right, right where it's available, that's great. Of course. |
| 1:13.0 | Then they have another prototype called the ORA Sense, |
| 1:17.0 | doesn't even need a ring, |
| 1:18.0 | because it can detect the electromagnetic fields |
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