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HaloTouch
HaloTouch is an exciting gadget that promises to help you interact with your smart devices in a new way. To do this, it allows users to project their smartphone or tablet screens onto any surface using a wireless connection to a conventional projector, and then uses a combination of motion-detection and a ‘TouchRing’ to let them interact with that surface as though it was a touchscreen. This works with flat surfaces and non-flat surfaces, and even with panes of glass creating a very high-tech aesthetic and creating many potential use-sceanrios. It even works on flowing water and smog!
All this means that you could use a painting app by drawing onto your wall, that you could share photos with friends using your chest as the screen, that you could create a heads-up-display out of a window, or that you could play large interactive games of checkers in the playground. There are a couple of limitations (root access is required for the technology to work, and there’s currently some latency) but Halo-Digi Technology aim to provide an affordable and simple solution for ‘90% of user scenarios’ – and they think they have the answer!
Science-Fiction to Science-Reality
HaloTouch comes from Halo-Digi Technology, a company that has spent the last two years developing WiFi Display related solutions for consumers and other organisations. The team were inspired by the famous scene in Minority Report where Tom Cruise commands numerous windows through touch gestures on floating panes of glass, but felt that current projectors alone weren’t enough to get the effect they were looking for.
‘We see [a] major pitfall in not being able to interact directly with a remote screen, so we worked on our HaloTouch project to make it happen. We see the combination of HaloTouch & Pico Projector with glass as the projected surface as the best low cost solution for a new user experience.
‘We feel like a small screen makes the best impact. Imagine installing several 15” panes of glass in a user’s home, and each showing an app from [their] phone (weather, email, map etc). It’s just like the sci-fi movies!'
The Campaign Begins
To make this a reality, Halo-Digi Technology have launched a Kickstarter campaign to try and raise $80,000. So far they’re doing well with 35 days to go and $3,485. To find out more and get in touch (no pun intended), visit their project page.
