MIT students discovered how to turn a typical LCD into a low-cost 3-D gestural computing system. Users activate controls on the display by touching the screen but as soon as they lift their finger off the screen, the system interprets their gestures. As a result, the display device becomes a giant sensor capable of telling where your hands are and how far away from the screen they are.
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