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When Katia Vega winks, strange things happen: a miniature drone takes to the air, or a hundred LEDs in her hair sparkle like a Christmas tree. It works because she has developed a range of conducting cosmetics that let her activate electronics with a flip of her eyelids.
"This is a clever use of materials and, more importantly, it highlights how today's beauty products could be re-purposed to create computational interfaces," says Thad Starner, Google's technical lead for Glass and a researcher in wearable computers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
Source: New Scientist
