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Facebook Will Help to “Hear With Skin”

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The folks at the Facebook innovation lab “Building 8” have announced Project: Hear With Your Skin, one of two projects aimed at new types of communication, the Slash Gear reports.

“Two projects focused on new capabilities of communication” is what the folks at Building 8 (B8) are suggesting this set is all about – the other is “Project: Type With Your Brain”. With Project: Hear With Your Skin, work begins by developing and building the hardware and software Facebook will need to “delivery language through the skin.”

A representative of Facebook’s Building 8 explains that this project is built starting with knowledge of previous, similar projects. One of these is the Tadoma method. This method had deaf and blind users communicate through changes in pressure in the air. They’d feel puffs of air and vibrations in a person’s throat and jaw to understand what the person was saying. The Tadoma method was based off the experience of Helen Keller. Below you’ll see some demonstration of this method done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Facebook Building 8 creators also worked with Braille – tiny bumps on paper that can be “read” by users without sight.


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