[monk_e_boy]

We use touch enabled projectors in schools all the time. That technology is way over five years old. I can't remember the last time I saw a classroom without it.

The first thing my 5 year old son does when he gets to school is to drag is name into the school dinner part of the board -- registration and meal choice all in one.

I wonder if they make a clean room version of this? Would be neat to have in hospitals and theatres (for surgery) and in the hospital clean rooms (labs etc)

[tekacs]

I was always under the impression that those devices in schools weren't capable of making any surface touch-sensitive, but rather only the whiteboard itself, using sensing on the whiteboard (IR touch?).

This Sony device seems to enable the former, however.

Happy to be corrected.

[laumars]

In fairness to the OP, there are other devices out there that do make any surface touch-sensitive, such as projection keyboards[1]. I remember seeing those devices being released more than a decade ago, thinking these kinds of devices would be the future. It has surprised me it's taken this long for the next evolution of this product to come to market (possibly due to licencing issues with IBM?) but it's really exciting now that it is finally here.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection_keyboard

[monk_e_boy]

OK, maybe that's why all the downvotes? I'm not sure if you can point them at anything. They are bolted to the ceiling.

I've used projected keyboards that you can move around. We used those in hospitals. Little USB things.