Multitoe offers touch interface for your feet

Submitted by Sek Chai

Researchers at Hasso Plattner Institute (Germany) have built a prototype user interface that interacts with a user's feet. The system, Multitoe, uses a high resolution camera to detect light changes on a pane of glass on which the user stands, in a technique called frustrated internal reflection (FTIR). The system was presented at a recent CHI 2010 conference in Atlanta. More information is available in a PC World article.