“Magic Finger” makes any surface a touch interface
It's called the “Magic Finger.” The technology was presented at the at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, and built by a group of researchers from the University of Alberta, University of Toronto and Autodesk Research. The Magic Finger is a device that looks a bit like a thimble or those rubber coverings used to make grabbing paper easier.
Autodesk is coming around to relevance again, what with new interface experiments and consumer software like 123D Catch that isn't blurring the lines between the real and virtual, but mapping them in polygonal precision.
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