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A miniature wireless track pad for nails

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Inspired by commercial nail art stickers, researchers at MIT have developed a wearable trackpad that attaches to your thumbnail. The device uses the same technology found in smartphones to recognize touch and works in real time as a controller when hands are busy. 

Produced by Christine Nguyen. Video courtesy of Melanie Gonick/MIT. Additional footage courtesy of Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao and Artem Dementyev.

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