{"id":9961,"date":"2013-04-26T15:18:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9961"},"modified":"2013-04-26T15:18:59","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T20:18:59","slug":"turning-a-standard-lcd-monitor-into-touchscreen-with-a-5-wall-mounted-sensor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9961","title":{"rendered":"Turning a standard LCD monitor into touchscreen with a $5 wall-mounted sensor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTXT\">Now, by plugging an EMI sensor into any wall socket, you can read your house\u2019s EM signature \u2014 and if you continue to listen, you can detect <em>changes<\/em> in the signature. Obvious changes occur when a device is switched on or off, but it also turns out that simply moving your hand close to an LCD monitor also alters your house\u2019s EM signature. It might sound a bit unbelievable, that a single finger moving towards an LCD monitor can be detected by a sensor at the other end of the house, but that\u2019s exactly what the University of Washington researchers have accomplished.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremetech.com\/computing\/154258-turning-a-standard-lcd-monitor-into-touchscreen-with-a-5-wall-mounted-sensor\">Turning a standard LCD monitor into touchscreen with a $5 wall-mounted sensor | ExtremeTech<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, by plugging an EMI sensor into any wall socket, you can read your house\u2019s EM signature \u2014 and if you continue to listen, you can detect changes in the signature. Obvious changes occur when a device is switched on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9961\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[320,1120,100,822],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-ee","tag-emi","tag-interesting-research","tag-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}