Keep Cheetos Dust off Your Fingertips with Chip Fingers

If there’s one thing you can count on when you eat Cheetos, it’s that you’ll have orange cheese dust all over your fingers and anything they touch. So what’s a neat freak to do when it’s snack time? Chip Fingers to the rescue!

You know those silly fingerless gloves that were all the rage thanks to Madonna back in the 1980s? Well, Chip Fingers are basically what they did with all of the fingertips they cut off those gloves. Except these are made out of food-grade silicone instead of non-food-grade black lace. They come in a set of three, so you can grip your Cheetos without worry about your fingers turning orange. They work equally well with Doritos and other messy snack foods. You can grab a set for about 15 bucks on Amazon (affiliate link).

Also, did you know that Cheetos aren’t even orange because of the cheese? Nope. They get their trademark orange hue thanks to a petroleum-derived artificial color called FD&C Yellow 6, aka Sunset Yellow FCF. I learned that from a college research paper, I kid you not.

[via Mental Floss]

Fujitsu touch interface detects fingers on real objects, adds digital details to print

Fujitsu touch interface can detect fingers on real objects

Bringing touch interfaces to real-world objects often involves putting hardware either inside the item or in front of it, neither of which is especially natural. Fujitsu has developed a control system that could eliminate those obstructions and bring digital interaction to many surfaces, even to old-fashioned paper. Its multi-camera approach can distinguish between objects on a table and the exact positions of a user's fingers, right down to fingertip outlines; it's accurate enough to scan text from a book as you drag your finger along the page. The system really comes alive, however, when its projector is involved. Besides providing visual feedback, the image overlay allows for both control of purely digital objects and interfaces tailored to real-world items. The company imagines brochures or maps that pop up extra details, among numerous other examples. While we wonder how long the technology will remain useful when there's an ongoing push to go paperless, Fujitsu sees enough practicality that it's anticipating a product in its fiscal 2014. That doesn't leave long until we can get a very literal hands-on.

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Hello Touch Wearable Vibrator: Getting Intimate, Cyborg-Style

If you are cool with electronic gadgets in the bedroom, then this could be  for you. Jimmy Jane’s Hello Touch fingertip vibrator is supposed to be like a pleasure Power Glove.

hello touch fingertip vibrator

This fingertip device is said to offer three times the vibration, while taking up less than one third of the space of other such gadgets. This device has no extra bulk, making it less clumsy and more usable in the bedroom.

hello touch fingertip vibrator device

You can get the Hello Touch fingertip vibrator from Jimmy Jane for $65(USD). Just one question: Will it be like making love to a cyborg?

[via Uncrate]