This sort of thing will be big in Japan. That's about it. They omit a lot of the step through steps required to say get your system online to the web to scan the product or read an Amazon.com review. The whole finger thing and gestures would seem to draw attention to oneself the way a deaf person using American Sign Language catches the eye. As for the way it showed how one meets people and words associated with them are projected on to them - it would take a scan days, and probably weeks, to filter through people and that is only if they remained perfectly still so that a computer could try to match all the various points of reference. By the time it found a match you could have driven home logged on to the web, plugged in their name and found out far more, far sooner. Thatr was a bit of blatant bs-ing the audience.

I don't want to discourage efforts in this regard, but I see the same technologies being incorporated into handier Blackberry type devices, not as "always on" piece of clothing that would give new meaning to radio frequency and magnetic field exposure.

And as for it being a sixth sense - that's quite a mislabeling. A sixth sense would a good name if the device could access unknown information, rather than known information. It's not hands free either, so how it exactly saves effort or energy is sort of vague. Popping one's cell phone out to read the time seems a heck of a lot easier than aligning one's body so the camera sees me draw a circle on my wrist. And in bright sunlight that projection thing is going to be all but useless.

Like the header says: Big in Japan.

It'll probably find favor with a few folks in Silicon Valley as well. If I were hired to give consultant advice to this firm, I would recommend they immediately convert their primary efforts to creating a version for handicapped people who cannot use keyboards - as I suspect this technology has a real future with the handicapped and could be sold to markets and shopping centers en masse just like motorized carts - making them far more money than they would initially make in the retail consumer sector. Then take those monies, go public, and introduce a more perfected mainstream version that competes with iPods, cellphones and Blackberries.