First Step Towards Minority Report Ads From Inwindow Outdoor “Picture a giant billboard several stories overhead. Now imagine bringing it down to street level where it is literally face to face with huge crowds of potential customers. In 2002, Inwindow Outdoor created the concept of customizing artwork to wrap entire storefronts with larger than life…

ExoPC’s 40-inch multitouch EXOdesk is coming in 2012 “Over the weekend, ExoPC posted a video teasing a multitouch surface called the EXOdesk, promising more details when the show kicks off after the new year. The desk measures 40 inches (make that “40 high-definition inches”) and, as you’d expect, supports a smorgasboard of multi-fingered gestures. The…

Moverio: Epson Announces World’s First See-Through 3D Head-Mounted Display “Epson Japan announced [JP] the so-called Moverio today, a see-through 3D head-mounted display (HMD), which is the first of its kind, according to the company. Think of it as mix between of NEC’s transparent HMD Tele Scouter and Sony’s cool 3D OLED head mounted display HMZ-T1,…

Touchscreen Makes Its Way Onto Keyboard of the Future “Touchscreen keypads seem to be progressively taking over the old-fashioned keys on our devices such as phones, tablets and ebooks. But the touchscreen keypad has now made its way to the computer — with the “keyboard of the future.” The Keyboard “ABC,” created by designer Iaroslav…

Samsung to offer flexible displays in 2012 “Flexible displays? Samsung’s got ’em, too. A few days after Nokia showed off its Kinetic Device prototype under the blue lights of Nokia World, Samsung made mention of its own plans to unleash some bendy mobile devices on the world. A spokesperson for the company was scarce on…

OmniTouch projection interface makes the world your touchscreen “Sometimes you just want to make notes on your forearm. Put that permanent marker down though, because PhD student Chris Harrison et al at Microsoft Research have created a new system that allows touchscreen interaction on hairy and uneven surfaces. It uses a short-range depth camera instead…

CMU Researchers Turn Any Surface Into A Touchscreen “Soon you, too, will be able to talk to the hand. A new interface created jointly by Microsoft and the Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute allows for interfaces to be displayed on any surface, including notebooks, body parts, and tables. The UI is completely multitouch and…

ITT unveils GhostRider encryption device capable of securing US Army smartphones “That may look like a Motorola Atrix, but it’s actually something known as the GhostRider — a new encryption device that could go a long way toward securing the Army’s smartphones. Developed by defense company ITT, this revamped handset would allow military personnel to…

Multiplayer AirPlay gaming “Yawn. I’ve been AirPlaying on my iPad 2 since the summer. That’s different. Yes, Real Racing 2 creators Firemint announced in June that you could use your iPad 2 as an AirPlay controller for the app, viewing racing stats on the tablet while the track takes up the whole of your (Apple…

Boogie Board Rip goes on pre-order, no more tearing through notepads “The Boogie Board Rip is now available to pre-order for all your digital sketching needs. The latest stylus-friendly writing tablet from Improv Electronics adds the ability to save notes and sketches, then port them across to your computer as PDFs. Its reflex LCD only…

A fabric antenna to keep you from being a castaway “Doesn’t look like much, does it? But the next time you’re lost at sea, you just might be thankful you’ve got it. That little square of fabric is actually a flexible antenna designed for the Cospas-Sarsat distress signal network, a Cold War-era system built to…

Polaroid Z340 Instant Digital Camera “With its reassuringly retro styling you’d be forgiven for thinking the Z340 is merely a pimped-up reissue of a classic Polaroid camera. But you’d be wrong because its beautifully blocky chassis is brimming with 21st century tech. For starters you can use its pop-up 3.7” LCD screen to review, crop…

Thin Mini-ITX-Based All-in-One Desktops “All-in-ones are a fast growing segment within the desktop market, but to date there are no standards for this form factor. They are built with custom motherboards, custom thermal solutions, and in many cases, custom power supplies, which drove up the cost of building these systems. All that is about to…