We’ve talked about how technology and human interaction are becoming more integrated all the time, but seeing this is pretty amazing. It’s hard to believe that technology like this is just a few short years away from becoming commonplace.

TED is system designed as a wearable computer, where the computer can be interacted with by using hand gestures in the air in front you, and the screen is projected onto any surface in front of you, including the palm of your hand or a wall. The technology is innovative, in that it allows its wearer to interact with the products and people around it by sensing the objects within sight of the camera and delivering what amounts to meta data, a descriptive language, about the objects, allowing its user to have the information available to make choices about how they interact with their environment. While this technology is still relatively new, it looks to be fairly simple, and easy to use even in it’s early stages.

Technology such as TED is really part of the next wave of future technology coming out of the tech sector and won’t be mainstream for time, but it definitely is something to watch, and demonstrates peoples desire to have technology that integrates well into their lives as opposed to technology in which we have to chain ourselves to some place or some time in order to maintain a lifestyle.