OmniTouch – Make Every Surface a Touch Screen

Now you are supposed to make a note. What would you do? Either search for a marker that you keep misplacing everytime or dig a smartphone of your pocket to do that. Sometimes you just want to make notes on your forearm. Just imagine how could it be if the palm of the hand could be used as a keypad, or as a tablet for jotting down notes. Now it is all possible with OmniTouch.

OmniTouch, a wearable projection system developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University andMicrosoft Research, enables users to turn paper, walls or even their own hands, arms and legs into graphical, interactive surfaces.

Perhaps the most convenient aspect of the technology is how it can be operated on the go, requiring no special calibration for each new surface it is used on. The system adapts easily to surfaces of most textures in 3D space, so it works even when the surface is not flat, such as with your hand, or perhaps a tree trunk. read more.