The taps and swipes people use to control their gadgets don't have to be applied by their fingers: their tongues can do it too. A team at Osaka Prefecture University in Japan has developed a device that senses tongue pressure through the cheek. Once installed in a helmet, it could allow motorcyclists and skiers to control their personal technology. The team strapped a pad with 64 pressure-sensing elements to the cheeks of six volunteers to mimic a sensor installed in a helmet They asked them to try five tongue gestures swipe up, swipe down, swipe left swipe right and a pushy "click." In 300 attempts, recognition accuracy was 98% they told the Augmented Human conference in Kobe Japan, last month
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