Light Touch Turns Any Surface Into A Touch Screen

A few days ago the Cambridge based company Light Blue Optics (LBO) revealed its first product called Light Touch at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Light Touch - an interactive projector - turns any flat surface into a 10'' touch screen, using a proprietary holographic laser projection technology (HLP), "creating bright, high-quality WVGA resolution video images that are always in focus. HLP enables extremely wide throw angles, resulting in large images being created at close proximity to the projector?fs aperture. HLP can also correct for distortion and optical aberrations in software, enabling novel table-top projection.

Light Touch includes an infra-red touch sensing system that transforms the projected image into a virtual 10 touch screen. The user can control the projector and interact with multimedia content and applications simply by touching the projected image. Light Touch runs Adobe Flash Lite 3.1, leveraging a large existing developer community and enabling the rapid development of innovative applications. WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity enable device to device communication and applications that connect directly to the internet such as social networking, multimedia sharing and electronic point of sale. Light Touch is equipped with 2GB of onboard Flash memory and has a Micro SD card slot that supports up to 32GB. Light Touch can be wall powered or battery operated, with a run-time of 2 hours before recharging is required."