"Thank you for your space-time," he said » Mika Meskanen

Alvaro Cassinelli, a Tokyo-based researcher in the field of optical computing gave a nice, compact presentation at ART+COM. His last year project Khronos Projector is already known in the circles, but what's been brewing a bit under the radar is the "Smart Laser Scanner for Human-Computer Interface". It can be used as a gestural input solution for ever shrinking mobile devices challenged by limits of human anatomy. No data gloves or such needed, the sticky laser beam can follow your fingertip(s) at the rate of one or two kHz. The rest is just semiotics.