Next-gen dining may mean an order of floating sushi (w/ Video)
(Phys.org) —A company in Japan has an interesting answer to what might be a next step in touchscreens. In fact, its approach may change our concept of a screen, with the company's concept of floating-image displays that permit the user to interact, The company is Asukanet and the device is called the Aerial Imaging Plate. As the name suggests, this is a device to project an image into the air. The image appears to float around from light that passes through it. In a demo of the product, Asukanet CEO Yukio Fukuda said, "At first sight, our AI Plate just looks like a sheet of glass. But in fact, it's an optical device, designed to reflect light twice. An ordinary mirror just reflects things, but the AI Plate forms an image from light passing through the plate, at the same distance beyond the plate as the object is from the...