{"id":10290,"date":"2014-03-05T14:50:47","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T22:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=10290"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:09:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:09:10","slug":"click-your-tongue-or-wink-to-control-this-tiny-computer-earclip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/click-your-tongue-or-wink-to-control-this-tiny-computer-earclip","title":{"rendered":"Click Your Tongue Or Wink To Control This Tiny Computer Earclip"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"author-name\"><a class=\"navigate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/user\/carey-dunne\">Carey Dunne \u2014 <\/a>FAST COMPANY<\/h4>\n<p><br \/> This tiny computer clips onto your ear and lets you scroll through a menu by winking or pause a song by scrunching your nose. The Samantha Stevens-ification of human interaction has begun.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like we\u2019re one step closer to becoming cyborgs with little chips implanted in our skulls. Researchers in Japan are currently developing the \u201cEarclip wearable PC,\u201d a tiny computer that clips onto your ear. It weighs all of 17-grams (0.59 ounces), but manages to house a GPS, compass, gyro-sensor, battery, barometer, speaker and microphone, and its functions are controlled by your facial expressions: the blink of an eye, a raise of an eyebrow, a click of the tongue. As inconspicuous as a hearing aid, it\u2019s less dorky-looking than Google Glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have made this with the basic idea that people will wear it in the same way they wear earrings,\u201d creator <a class=\"profile\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/person\/kazuhiro-taniguchi\">Kazuhiro Taniguchi<\/a>, an engineer at Hiroshima City University, told AFP in a recent interview.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3027183\/click-your-tongue-or-wink-to-control-this-tiny-computer-earclip?partner=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carey Dunne \u2014 FAST COMPANY This tiny computer clips onto your ear and lets you scroll through a menu by winking or pause a song by scrunching your nose. The Samantha Stevens-ification of human interaction has begun. It looks like we\u2019re one step closer to becoming cyborgs with little chips implanted in our skulls. Researchers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1499,1524,1522,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-cyborgs","category-hardware","category-innovation","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10290"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65026,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10290\/revisions\/65026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}