Microsoft turns your hand into a touchscreen - all you have to do is wear a projector on your shoulder

Microsoft researchers have developed the next generation of the Kinect motion sensor - a device which turns any flat surface into a touchscreen.


The experimental sensor tracks movements on anything from a human arm to a wall and makes it into a mobile computer.


In tests users have been able to punch in numbers into a keypad projected onto their hands and write on a virtual ‘notepad’ on a table.


The researchers say it is the first step to one day doing away with the need to carry around a phone or a computer.  More Read