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Wearable tech as makeup could help quadriplegics control their environments with the wink of an eye.

When 33-year-old quadriplegic Felipe Esteves saw Katia Vega levitate a small drone just by blinking at it, he knew that was the kind of superhero he wanted to be. Wearing a white wig to keep her secret identity intact, channeling X-Men’s Storm, Vega was demonstrating her superhero tech at an expo. Each time she blinked with purpose, a tiny circuit nearly invisible to onlookers completed and instructed a controller to move the drone. That circuit was hidden under her wig, and was completed every time a pair of metallic false eyelashes met for a long enough time and connected to conductive eyeliner Vega was wearing. Signals were transmitted to a Zigbee radio, with the receiver kept in the superhero’s handbag. Sometimes, her blinks instructed animated images that read “POW, Bam, Zap” to pop up.

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It was crowded on the sidewalks in Hong Kong. Early morning commuters, shoulders tightly pressed against the strangers walking next to them, moved in a sluggish blob through each brimming intersection. Katia Vega didn’t mind the congestion. If anything, it made for ideal people-watching.

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Katia Vega is a Beauty Tech Designer and is currently a PhD candidate in Computer Science at the Department of Informatics from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) under the supervision of Prof. Hugo Fuks. She describes beauty technology as an emergent field in wearable computer using software in innovative ways.

眨一眨眼可為電子裝置供電開啟燈泡、手指頭一動即可打開上鎖的門戶，

不必成為特務都可擁有這些「特異功能」。巴西科學家維加（Katia Vega）將眼影、假眼睫毛和指甲加入無線電裝置，令美容與科技合二為一。

A weekly roundup of what’s happening at the intersection of tech and fashion. Drone-controlling beauty tech of the week.

Blinklifier ist ein neuartiges Eingabegerät, das mit den Augen gesteuert wird: Es erkennt ein Augenzwinkern und löst eine Aktion aus. Gleichzeitig soll es die Träger verschönern.

Американский инженер Катя Вега (Katia Vega) сообщила о создании “электронного макияжа”, состоящего из микроэлементов, которые располагаются на глазных веках.

Fingernails embedded with RFID tags? Computer scientist Katia Vega creates Beauty Technology, a range of cosmetics and accessories that conduct electricity and control devices.

The hi-tech cosmetics were unveiled at an Interactive and Surface conference at the University of St Andrews

Computer scientist Katia Vega has developed a set of conducting cosmetics that can be applied to your fingernails or eyelashes to control technology.

Beauty tech designer Katia Vega developed cosmetics that can activate various equipment

Special metallic makeup could put the face back into “user interface.”

Now you can look electric and, well, actually be electric too. Researchers have developed electronic makeup that turns your face into a remote control.

Wearable Beauty Technology Lights up a Room One engineer has found a way to infuse beauty with technology to create conducting cosmetics that are capable of activating electronics and levitating objects. Katia Vega, the makeup tech mastermind, is currently a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil and has developed chemically metalized eyelashes, RFID nails, and makeup that “connect sensors, actuators and their connections in an attractive way that the wearer’s observers would not notice the hidden circuit,” Vega notes on her website.

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

Computer scientist Katia Vega has developed conductive eye shadow and false eyelashes that can be used to control wearable computers. For example, an extended blink could trigger your phone’s camera.

Brazilian scientist Katia Vega has developed cosmetics with the ability to launch a drone or open a door.

One of the most intriguing developments to come out of the recent ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference is new work from the Brazilian scientist, Katia Vega, who offered up something called “electro-cosmetics”, or the field of research into controlling electronics using cosmetic make-up.

We can do a lot with our makeup: change our look, highlight a certain feature, attract attention…the list goes on. What our list doesn’t include, though, is the ability to, um, control drones. That’s apparently simply because we’re not Katia Vega, a computer scientist who has developed makeup that can literally activate electronics. Wait, what?

Ever wanted to a launch a fleet of killer drones with the blink of an eye? Good news, researchers have just the thing.

Ever wanted to a launch a fleet of killer drones with the blink of an eye? Good news, researchers have just the thing.

Putting on makeup might not be the same any more in the future, as wearable technology takes on a whole new level of interactivity. With the clever application of conductive makeup in common beauty items such as false eyelashes, nails and eyeshadow, computer scientist Katia Vega managed to figure out a way to make conductive elements as well as sensors part of transforming an ordinary makeup into gadget-activating remote controls.

Dus je wilt je gadgets op afstand bedienen, maar bent te lui om de afstandsbediening te pakken en Google Glass kan je niet betalen. Gelukkig heeft je vrouw/vriendin een dikke laag make-up op en kan zo van kanaal wisselen. Wait, what?

A aluna do curso de doutorado do Departamento de Informática da PUC-Rio, Katia Vega, desenvolve pesquisas sobre o conceito de “Beauty Technology”, que agrega tecnologia a diferentes partes do corpo humano. A pesquisadora já desenvolveu cílios postiços capazes de emitir comandos eletrônicos através do movimento do piscar dos olhos, como passar slides em uma apresentação, e criou unhas postiças com dispositivos que emitem comandos como acender luzes e abrir portas.

São trabalhos de alta tecnologia, muitos deles com iniciativas sustentáveis. Os projetos, protótipos e até produtos criados pelos alunos, será exibidos durante quatro dias na universidade.

Ao menos uma vez na vida você quis poder controlar um objeto com um piscar de olhos, não é? Saiba que essa realidade está cada vez mais próxima. Uma pesquisa resultou na criação de cílios postiços e unhas de acrigel, capazes de controlar apresentações de slides, equipamentos de DJ, iluminação e uma infinidade de objetos. O estudo, desenvolvido na PUC-Rio, é feito pela peruana Kátia Vega, com supervisão do professor Hugo Fuks.

The field of wearable technology is rich with exploration of human emotion — and headwear that would turn Padmé Amidala green with envy. The flirty Blinklifier is a concept by Tricia Flanagan and Katia Vega. It’s fitted with LEDs that respond to specific eye-movement and could take flirting to a new level. Researchers hope the result will give people more visual clues about how their friends are feeling.

Conectado à internet, o Google Glass é pioneiro de uma tendência que deve nos levar à computação de vestir

Conductive make-up, magnetic finger nails, a blink controller that levitates objects with blinking? Take off my Google Glass and paint it on me!

Katia Vega recebeu o prêmio TEI Design Challenge, em Barcelona. Cílios usam tecnologia conhecida como ‘computação vestível’.

Katia, que mora no Rio de Janeiro desde 2008, metalizou os cílios postiços com prata e outros elementos químicos para que eles parecessem pretos e naturais. Com o controle remoto de um pequeno orbitador escondido no bolso, Katia podia ativá-lo apenas ao piscar os olhos. Leia mais…