If you've ever tried to manipulate an Excel file (or similar) on a 320 x 240 resolution display in the palm of your hand, we totally understand your pain. Thankfully, a few dutiful individuals at BYU have concocted a snazzy way to get handheld imagery onto tabletop displays, and there's even a video to prove it. To demonstrate, the team utilized a
Sony VAIO UX, which was mounted on a conductive frame that "established an electrical connection between the user's grasp and the unit's feet." Once the UX was placed on a larger display, it then beamed its images out and even allowed users to scroll around or reposition the output by simply touching the display and / or moving the UX. Granted, the actual technology behind all this "Spilling" is more complicated than we've room to mention, so just do yourself a favor and peek the (slightly monotonous) video in the read link. [Warning: Video link has been known to crash browsers, view at your own risk]
[Thanks, Brian W.]
posted Oct 18th 2007 8:49PM
That guy in the video had NO emotion. I almost fell asleep!
thats cool though, cant wait for things like this to be mainstream :D
Just think of the implications this technology could have for my porn collection.
Oh My GOD... I'd finally be able to zoom in and out of nipples by virtually tweaking them.
Probably not what the fine, upstanding folks at BYU (of all places) had in mind!
Those Excel sheets look like a lot of fun....
Wasn't expecting my school to pop up on engadget tonight...
Yeah me neither
this has no practical value whatsoever.
Exactly. I can't think of a single time when I've had to strain my eyes to try to work on something on my handheld. It would be totally pointless to have, say, public access points or a shared conference table where I could stretch my proverbial legs and actually get some work done instead of spending the whole time scrolling. No benefit whatsoever.
its all fake, its a proyector from the top, your can see the reflection on the hands of the two guys and even on the PC.
I can't for sure dispute what you are saying, but as a BYU student myself i can tell you that if it were fake and anyone at BYU were to find out, those kids would be kicked out so fast for putting out a false story like this. BYU has a very strict honor code.
Of course its projected from above... the sensors on the bottom give location information to (I think) an external pc which updates the projected image, along with what looks like an extra neat bit of code so they don't project onto the VAIO screen.
Well done BYU! Really like this project. Hopefully someday this will no longer require a projector (or at least make it a rear-projection like the Microsoft Surface).
Oh, and perhaps speak to Microsoft about this and maybe they may get this technology integrated into the Surface?
Isn't this the same technology the feds used to catch kevin mitnick? Something like catching the gamma rays off the screen to reproduce the image from a range of up to several miles. Amazing what they were able to do even back then.... imagine what other tech they arent passing down to the masses.
Can't believe my alma matter is on Engadget.....that's awsome.
Anyways, The handheld isn't beaming out any images. The projector on top of the table is, but this is still very neat, and not an easy task to accomplish.