The missing component is making the projected surface "touchable". If it was, then you would effectively have an iPhone with a huge screen. In the best design, it would be an "ultra short throw" projector that would project a 15" screen on the table top in front of me and I could use two fingers to interact with it, type on it, etc.
The demo shows a fairly limited application of syncing two schedules, but the opportunity is there for dual touch projected screens that give iPhone functionality. Then the question would be "what wouldn't you use it for?"...
The phone has 256MB of RAM and a 1GHz processor, which do the job reasonably well, though the Anna interface will likely leave something to be desired for many smartphone users.
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The missing component is making the projected surface "touchable". If it was, then you would effectively have an iPhone with a huge screen. In the best design, it would be an "ultra short throw" projector that would project a 15" screen on the table top in front of me and I could use two fingers to interact with it, type on it, etc.
See this video of what TAT and GestureTek are cooking up for an example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAJ1SxHCqVc
The demo shows a fairly limited application of syncing two schedules, but the opportunity is there for dual touch projected screens that give iPhone functionality. Then the question would be "what wouldn't you use it for?"...