Researchers at the National Taiwan University in Taipei may have the perfect solution - a screen on your fingernail.
The prototype is a little clunky - a one-inch OLED screen attached to a ring that you wear on your thumb. But engineers working on the project hope one day it will be possible to coat fingernails in organic light-emitting materials and wirelessly beam content directly to the nail itself.
"The proposed display augments the use of a finger by allowing for always-available visual feedback," write the researchers in their paper, NailDisplay: Bringing an Always-Available Visual Display To Fingertips. "What you control is what you see."
The technology, dubbed NailDisplay, has the potential to revolutionise the way we use devices such as smartphones, tablets and PCs, the researchers say.
The aim of the technology is to allow you to see what's on your device's screen even when your thumbs are covering up the display. For example, if you're typing on a smartphone screen but can't actually see the keys you are trying to press, the NailDisplay would show what's going on under your thumbs.
The researchers say the device incorporates an accelerometer, which means different content could be displayed using different finger gestures.
certainly intersting although I am not sure it will take off, why would we want to see our smartphone on our nails, maybe if the phone is in you poccket it saves you having to take it out of the pocket to see messages.
A screen at your fingertips
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