This is why we love the folk at MIT

[JBeukema]

Leave it to students at the MIT Media Lab to develop a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. With an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, they attached a mirror and connected it to an internet-enabled mobile phone. A mere $350 of off-the-shelf components and suddenly the glass window at Macy’s, your car door, or your arm become a computer display. Want to Google the latest Dow Jones, Nasdaq, or S&P 500 returns? No problem, just do a quick search on your shirt sleeve.

Wearing the Internet | h+ Magazine

 

[dilloduck]

Leave it to students at the MIT Media Lab to develop a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. With an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, they attached a mirror and connected it to an internet-enabled mobile phone. A mere $350 of off-the-shelf components and suddenly the glass window at Macy’s, your car door, or your arm become a computer display. Want to Google the latest Dow Jones, Nasdaq, or S&P 500 returns? No problem, just do a quick search on your shirt sleeve.

Wearing the Internet | h+ Magazine

cool stuff-----will it make monitors any cheaper ???

 

[JBeukema]

Leave it to students at the MIT Media Lab to develop a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. With an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, they attached a mirror and connected it to an internet-enabled mobile phone. A mere $350 of off-the-shelf components and suddenly the glass window at Macy’s, your car door, or your arm become a computer display. Want to Google the latest Dow Jones, Nasdaq, or S&P 500 returns? No problem, just do a quick search on your shirt sleeve.

Wearing the Internet | h+ Magazine

cool stuff-----will it make monitors any cheaper ???

Who needs a monitor?

 

[rdean]

Only 6% of scientists say they are Republican. I wonder how many of those students at MIT are Republican? Just look at the rants against "book knowledge" and "edjamacation". See what you can do with "book knowledge" and "edjamacation".

 

[Old Rocks]

This is actually a development since about Reagan. Before that, you could find just as many fruitcakes on the left as on the right that disdained any knowledge. Seems that after that the Republicans were attracting the majority of Luddites and anti-science kooks.