{"247601":{"#nid":"247601","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Metallic make-up lets you launch drones with a wink","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhen 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.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0022This is a clever use of materials and, more importantly, it highlights how today\u0027s beauty products could be re-purposed to create computational interfaces,\u0022 says\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/~thad\/\u0022\u003EThad Starner\u003C\/a\u003E, Google\u0027s technical lead for Glass and a researcher in wearable computers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003ESource: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24412-metallic-makeup-lets-you-launch-drones-with-a-wink.html#.UmU_yJSifr9\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENew Scientist\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27592","created_gmt":"2013-10-21 12:06:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:26:45","author":"Joshua Preston","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn24412-metallic-makeup-lets-you-launch-drones-with-a-wink.html#.UmU_yJSifr9","dateline":{"date":"2013-10-16T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2013-10-16T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"10353","name":"wearable computing"},{"id":"77691","name":"wearable technology"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}