What is Omnitouch?
The OmniTouch system turns most any flat surface into a touch screen. It combines a bit of Microsoft’s Kinect (or rather, a device similar in nature to the Kinect) with a pico projector into a single unit that you wear on your shoulder. Early tests suggest that most any flat surface works here, from walls to laptop screens even going as far as clothing and your own palm.
It's design would allow you to project a numerical keypad onto any flat surface to dial out, or give you access to most any touch screen driven application from whatever flat surface you happen to be facing at the time. With a system like this in hand, it’s not hard to imagine from there a cell phone–or even tablet–that perches on your shoulder and allows you to make all your necessary inputs from a set of controls projected directly in front of you.
Naturally, this is still in the development stages, but with Carnegie Mellon and Microsoft behind it, they might have this out to us sooner than you might expect.
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