Is that woman absent-mindedly stroking her hair? Or is she actually recording a conman’s deception and broadcasting his location? It sounds unlikely – but that’s just one possible application of a system that lets you turn your hair into a covert trigger for your apps.
Called Hairware, the technology was invented by Katia Vega of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2013 she used conductive eye make-up to launch a drone simply by blinkingMovie Camera.
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