Sparsh - "your body is your USB flash drive ... conceptually"(pranavmistry.com)

5 pointsby gaelianvor 15 Jahren2 comments

Sparsh - "your body is your USB flash drive ... conceptually"

http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sparsh/

1 comments

Animus7vor 15 Jahren

I didn't see any real explanation of the tech, but it seems like a (slow) synchronized clipboard that has nothing to do with your body at all. At best, confusing, at worst... an anecdote:

I remember when I had to convince my grandma that closing the browser wouldn't make her email disappear.

Now I'll have to convince people that washing their hands won't wipe away the bits.

gaelianvor 15 Jahren

I took a minute to title this one because as far as I can see you're right, it's not storing anything in or on your body but I didn't want to say anything in the title that wasn't on the page. So I added the "conceptually" bit from the page in an effort to accurately but succinctly label what this actually is.

Here's the page I found it from originally where it says that it uses Dropbox or FTP for the transfer:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20325-store-data-in-yo...

I found it interesting because it ostensibly can be used with Dropbox which is an app that I like. Though I disagree with New Scientist that Dropbox is "still irritatingly complicated" but maybe that's just because I'm a geek.