Cicret Bracelet Turns Skin Into a Touchscreen Display

23 Jan 2015 • design-milk.com

The biggest obstacle beyond battery life and unique apps specific to the wearable experience is user accessibility/screen legibility. We’ve all become accustomed to increasingly larger smart device displays, and navigating a small wrist display can feel regressive and unnecessarily challenging. But one developer is hoping to bridge the divide between utility and legibility, ditching tiny screens and proposing we use our own skin as a touchscreen display.

I hope it’s closer to the utility end of the divide. I can’t imagine projecting a tiny image onto skin (and often hair) with today’s projector technology is going to be anywhere close to the quality of resolution users have come to expect from today’s devices.