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Beauty tech nails: interactive technology at your fingertips

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Looking for wearables that are fashionable, smart and augment human interaction, we introduce the term Beauty Technology as an emergent field in Wearable Computing. It is an on-body computing approach that turns non-invasive, wireless and without power required electromagnetic devices into beauty products for interacting with different surfaces and devices. This paper describes the materials and the prototyping process used in the making of Beauty Tech Nails exemplifying its application in everyday beauty products.

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    TEI '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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    3. nails
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