The touch-screen grows up before our eyes

Remember when you thought your first Palm Pilot was the coolest device ever? Touch-screens have evolved light-years since then.

Everywhere Displays



A diagram of the Everywhere Displays projection system from IBM. Projectors, mounted in one or more parts of an ordinary room, project images of "touch screens" onto ordinary surfaces, such as tables, walls or the floor. Video cameras capture images of users touching various parts of the surfaces and send that information for interpretation by a computer.

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