An Interactive Projector That Turns Any Flat Surface into a Touch Screen

January 18th, 2010 in Technology

UK-based Light Blue Optics just announced the downright awesome Light Touch, a laser projector that beams a fully-interactive 10-inch touchscreen computer. It works exactly like a touchscreen tablet, allowing you to interact with whatever's on the screen. Instead of performing swipes and taps on a glass panel, though, you do it over any flat surface where the laser projector throws up its digital display. It displays a 10-inch WVGA screen that's designed for showing off on tabletops and other flat surfaces. To interact with the user, it integrates an infrared touch-sensing system that turns it into a virtual touchscreen. The device runs Adobe Flash Lite 3.1, allowing it access to a wide variety of applications and a rich visual development platform. Other features include Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 2GB of onboard storage, microSD card expansion and a rechargeable battery (with two hours of runtime). Seriously, this thing looks awesome. I'm not sure how well it's going to take off, but this could be the start of something exciting. A portable computer without a heavy screen sure sounds like an enticing proposition.