Wearable computers: The next generation -5

A touch screen anywhere: Wearable Multitouch Projector

You run the risk of looking like the Borg from Star Trek, but wearing Hrvoje Benko's shoulder-mounted Wearable Multitouch Projector lets you make your own touch interface on any surface. Created at Microsoft's corporate research lab, Benko's machinery uses the company's motion-sensing Kinect hardware and a micro-projector to create a virtual zone of interactivity.
You control the projected images using familiar gestures such as tapping, pinching and zooming to do anything from making a phone call to getting directions from mapping software. The good news is that Benko thinks the ungainly rig can be miniaturized to something that's smaller, lighter and less reminiscent of an alien invader.

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