Researchers at the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group are prototyping more natural ways for people to interact with computers and access and store information. Here are 10 inventions that enrich our personal and professional lives
People who want to de-clutter the tops of their desks will welcome Pranav Mistry's Mouseless, an invisible computer mouse powered by an Infrared (IR) laser beam and an IR camera, both of which are embedded in a computer. Mouseless works by creating a plane of IR laser just above the surface a computer sits on. A user cups her hand, as if she were holding a physical computer mouse, and the laser lights up her hand. The IR camera detects the cups of IR light that the user's hand creates and interprets changes in the position of those lights as cursor movements and mouse clicks.