OmniTouch Research Prototype: Forget Touch Screens. Here Comes Touch Anything

Carnegie Mellon Human Computer Interaction Institute and Microsoft have a research prototype system that may change the way we interact with computing devices in the future. OmniTouch combines a projector with a Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect camera system to allow any surface to become and interactive touch interface.

While the system looks large and clumsy, keep in mind that this is a very early concept prototype. Miniaturization and industrial design are months or years away.