Scientists Discover Way to Make Anything a Touchscreen

[Guest]

The product, blessed with the incredible name 'Omnitouch' uses a picoprojector and a short range depth camera for taking 3D images (similar to a Microsoft Kinect) to project images with full multi-touch functionality onto whatever surface the user desires

Scientists Discover Way to Make Anything a Touchscreen : Read more

 

[fyasko]

shoulder-mounted pc's are the future. i bet apple or better yet rambus has the patent rights already...

 

[killerclick]

Nice but still clumsy. I want the UI rendered directly on the retina so only I can see it.

 

[Guest]

As a prototype, it looks very interesting. Looking forward to this becoming a part of our future!

 

[N.Broekhuijsen]

Two comments:
- This is an old concept, I've seen similar ideas years ago
- Can it turn AIR into a touchschreen?

 

[das_stig]

Cool, look forward to a terminal interface as used in the original Tron.

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[davedurg09]

Can it play crysis??

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Great. Now everyone is going to be walking around looking like the Predator, poking themselves.

 

[stereopsis]

LOL at the above comment

 

[Guest]

This looks strikingly similar to what Apple filed a patent for a while back, though not exact. Their patent included the ability to share multiple iDevices, so that makes it unique, but the underlying concept was EXACTLY as indicated in this article. The iDevices project onto a surface, and cameras track user input to provide touch functionality on the projected screen.

 

[Guest]

Poor choice of a name -- Omnitouch is already a product from Home Automation Inc., been out for years You'd think the geniuses at Carnegie Mellon would have taken a moment to at least Google the name.

 

[Guest]

This proves evolution wrong!!!!
(Sorry, but a troll is needed in every Discussion board)

 

[CaedenV]

Needs a bit of spit and polish, but it looks like they have already made it quite useful. Bravo! very cool!

 

[tomaz99]

I think this is fine...if you can conceal it in a Parrot figure...then nobody would know you're walking around with a shoulder mounted camera.

 

[Guest]

.Agathorn. What are you talking about. Quit making things up. What a tool.

 

[Usersname]

[citation][nom]killerclick[/nom]Nice but still clumsy. I want the UI rendered directly on the retina so only I can see it.[/citation]Great...So you end up constantly poking yourself in the eye?

 

[de5_Roy]

omn iTouch - darn. apple is gonna sue those scientists and microsoft.
nice tech, combine that with microsoft's kinect on the next xbox. new ways to play with yourself!

 

[nikorr]

It could be great in the medicine, one day.

 

[del35]

Why are we not hearing of this in the mainstream media? We are still being bombarded with iPhone propaganda. Sad situation that something as revolutionary as this should go almost completely unreported by the msm. Thanks for this glimpse into the future for technology...

 

[d_kuhn]

I suspect the '3d camera' is actually the Kinect internals repackaged/relensed for shorter ranges (the Kinect is a very cheap device for the capabilities it's got). Cool idea matching it up to a projector.