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Coming Soon: Computer Screens on Coke Cans?

by Terrence O'Brien on June 6, 2008 at 08:32 AM

Computers on Coke Cans?

The Human Media Laboratory (HML) at Queen's University in Ontario is cooking up some interesting visions of the places that computers will be going next and how we'll interact with them. One concept is interactive displays on regular sheets of paper that allow control of a program by physically turning the page. Another is a workbench for engineers that lets them build functional prototypes of gadgets modeled from Styrofoam. They've even demonstrated interactive Coke cans that lets you explore other Coke products with a display on the can.

Currently, these futuristic displays are created using bulky and expensive projectors and overhead cameras that can recognize and track the motion of objects such as paper, fingers, and pens. The experimental systems even incorporates multi-touch like the iPhone.

For now HML is just experimenting, dreaming up fun and futuristic ways we might employ and interact with computers in the future. But who knows, serving up Coke-centric Web browsing on the side of the can might one day be a 'Minority Report'-esque reality. [Source: Network World]

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