Mobile Phones Can
Be Beamed Onto Palms Using New Technology
Researchers are developing a
revolutionary new technology that puts the mobile phone on the palm of your
hand — literally. Using a special camera that combines high-speed vision and
two rotational mirrors, Masatoshi Ishikawa and colleagues at the University of
Tokyo have found a way to project a device’s display or keyboard onto the palm
or any other surface, so that one can operate it remotely at home or
office.
The system can detect the
movement of a 3D object every two milliseconds, Ishikawa said. The high-speed
vision allows the programme to track moving objects, so that users would be
free to walk with the phone image on their palm, without the display ever
shifting, ABC News reported. The computer system beams ultrasonic wave
emitters, so users actually feels the keyboard pressing against their skin,
without anything in their hand. The sensation is simiar to holding a 3 gramme
object. “You won’t need a keyboard , you won’t need to carry a smartphone, or a
computer.
You can make a call without
anything,” Ishikawa said. Ishikawa expects the technology to turn into a
reality in a year or two. The ‘palm phone’ is the latest in a string of systems
that Ishikawa has developed using high-speed vision technology. Last year, the
Japanese researcher unveiled a robotic hand designed to win the game
rock-paper-scissors 100% of the time. PTI
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