New Goggles Offer Minority Report-Style Interface With Heads-Up Display

Lucas123 writes "A Taiwanese non-profit R&D organization is demonstrating a new heads-up type display that allows users to interact with the floating virtual screens using finger swipes. The new i-Air Touch technology from the Industrial Technology Research Institute is being developed for an array of devices, including PCs, wearable computers and mobile devices. The technology allows a user's hand to be free of any physical device such as a touchpad or keyboard for touch input. ITRI plans to license the patented technology to manufacturers. The company sees the technology being used in not only consumer arenas (video), but also for medical applications such as endoscopic surgery and any industrial applications that benefit from hands-free input."

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Oh Yeah!

[digitalPhant0m]

The technology allows a user's hand to be free of any physical device

Oh yeah, I'll bet it does...

Can't wait

[wjcofkc]

Apparently in the future everyone will have tremendous upper body strength. In all seriousness though, I consider the enumerable guys in my office building who insist on taking their business meetings all the way to the urinal via bluetooth. I can just imagine the sensory input overload being so overwhelming that they get mixed up, start waving their arms around and pee all over themselves and anyone within range.

Re:What should we call it?

[Chas]

Gorilla Arms Inducer.