{"id":3068,"date":"2015-04-13T16:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?3068"},"modified":"2015-04-13T16:02:46","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T16:02:46","slug":"new-hair-controlled-smartphone-technology-comes-with-a-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/new-hair-controlled-smartphone-technology-comes-with-a-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"New hair-controlled smartphone technology comes with a twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why use your fingers to control your smartphone when you can just use your hair?<\/p>\n<p>The Hairware technology allows you to connect your smartphone to your hair and allows you to manipulate the technology through your locks.<\/p>\n<p>Katia Vega, founder of Beauty Technology, has created a set of extensions that blend in with a person's natural colour, and allows them to stroke their hair in order to send text messages or take selfies by twirling their hair.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Vega said the technology is primarily aimed at women, although she is currently working on one that allows men to do something similar by controlling their beards.<\/p>\n<p>She added that it can also be used as a security feature &ndash; meaning that if someone is in a tricky situation, they can discreetly send pre-programmed text messages or reveal their destination.<br> She said: &quot;Hairware acts as a capacitive touch sensor that detects touch variations on hair and uses machine learning algorithms in order to recognise user&rsquo;s intention. Artificial hair extensions were chemically metalised for acquiring electrical conductivity and also keeping a natural coloration. We added layers of non- conductive hair extensions that are added for isolating the hair from the skin.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Also, these layers improved the capacitor sensor values. Each time the user touch the top, middle or tip, the capacitor sensor differentiates these values.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The way it works is the extensions have been &quot;chemically metalised&quot;, so when a person touches the strands a circuit is completed and a signal is sent via a Bluetooth radio in a hair clip to a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>The technology can also react, depending upon how many times someone touches their locks.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For example, running your fingers through your hair once could open an app, while performing the same hand movement again would activate a different program.<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801783336-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801783336\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hairware technology allows you to connect your smartphone to your hair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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