Touch-Display Keyboards (TDK) Keyboard Concept Protytype

Here's a group of people who have taken the display keyboard concept for a thorough spin. Provided you can manufacture a display keyboard cheaply, I think it's promising. For sure, it would make the keyboard look real clean when you switch it off.

Touch Projector: Mobile Interaction Through Video

I think this is absolutely crazy. This solution is so computationally expensive it's ridiculous. Still. In a few years, computing power will be tremendous, so who cares. Just do it!

Well done Sebastian Boring, et al.

Skinput: Appropriating the Body as an Input Surface

Microsoft has found a way to measure acoustically when you tap a part of your body. Neat. I wonder if you could use microphones in a mobile phone to measure what goes on in the arm when you're holding the phone. Then you might have a really cheap touchpad on your arm.

Nintendo DSI demo video using Facetracking to control Parallax

It's nice to see these ideas catching on. It feels more 3D, and best of all, no extra glasses.

Touchable Holography

I've blogged about ultrasonic tacile displays before, but this technology seems so magical to me that I couldn't resist posting about this video. And it always helps the imagination with more examples. I love the little elephant right at the end.

Touch-free input interface using a single camera

Really nice. I would like to try out what this feels like. His typing seems rather quick. It would be a nice way to avoid smudges on your screen if nothing else. You can still have haptic feedback in the air as shown here.

One might have problems with ergonomics and fatigue as you have nowhere to rest your hands or fingers, but you won't know until you try.

DIY Touchscreen Analysis

DIY Touchscreen Analysis from MOTO Development Group on Vimeo.

Nice test! And a great reminder for designers to be careful at thee edges of the screen, where sensitivity generally is not as good.