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The patent for this screen keyboard, however, uses multitouch technology to automatically align the keys to the position of the hand. Since the keys are always in the same relative position to your fingers, you will always have a physical point of reference: Your own hand. That way, you can blindingly hammer your keys against the screen, knowing that your fingers will always hit the keys they are aiming for.

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

The process isn’t exactly simple, but the results we saw were stunning: multitouch surfaces with responsiveness rivaling Microsoft’s $12,000 offering, built in a garage on a shoestring budget. “Future UI article be damned,” we thought, “we’ve gotta build one of these for ourselves.”

we paid somewhere in the neighborhood of $350 for all the supplies.

Use Havok Cloth to quickly and easily animate character clothing such as shirts, trousers, skirts, capes and ponytails.

Garments have controllable constraints in various areas, limiting the extent to which they can move and twist in that portion of the cloth. Garments can also collide with specific bones of the underlying model to achieve highly realistic reactions.