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CMU Researchers Create Multitouch Surface Anywhere

Posted by Soulskill on from the but-can-it-talk-like-a-parrot dept.

tekgoblin writes "In a joint effort between Microsoft and the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute, a new interface has been born. The new interface is usable on any surface, including notebooks, tables, walls and body parts. The UI is completely multitouch and worn on the shoulder, which will turn any surface you are pointing at into a usable workspace by the combination of a projector and a 3D modeling device similar to the Kinect."

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  1. hm... by Lockyy · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm pretty sure I saw this absolutely ages ago. It was an open source project so you could do it yourself and it was just a projector and a camera on a thing around your neck. The video had them playing a racing game on a piece of paper, they turned the car by tilting the paper. In fact, I'm going to find an article. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/02/ted-digital-six/ There, already done by MIT.

  2. Re:Not new, MIT did this long time ago by miknix · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/

    'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

    There was also a TED talk about it. If you haven't seen it yet, you should, it is very inspiring and futuristic.

    So yeah, another slow news day?