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Hi, I'm a Scientific American podcast podcast editor Steve Merski.

And here's a short piece from the July 2018 issue of the magazine in the section called

Advances, Dispatches from the Frontiers of Science, Technology, and Medicine.

Smart Walls by Prachi Patel.

The right paint can add pizzazz to your walls, and now it can also

make them smarter. Researchers recently converted a wall into an outsized track pad and motion sensor

by using low-cost conductive paint to create a large grid of electrodes. Such a smart wall can sense human touch and track gestures

from a short distance. It can also detect the locations of appliances and whether they're switched

on. The technology could someday turn on lights when a person enters a room, track a player's motion

in an interactive video game, or monitor a child's television

use.

Yang Zhang, a computer science doctoral student at Carnegie Mellon University, helped to create

the concept.

To create the high-tech surface, Zhang and his colleagues applied painters' tape in a lattice

pattern to a 12 by 8- foot wall, then coated it with commercially

available conductive nickel paint. Removing the tape left a pattern of diamond-shaped electrodes,

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