Sprout ~ HP's 3D Interactive proto-Smartbulb...

Check out HP's new Sprout, their 3D interactive PC/workstation that's a first-stab (albeit third-rate) at a commercial smartbulb... USAToday's Edward Baig reviews Sprout... This reminds me of the Calliope Never-ending Drawing Machine at MIT Media Lab... And also the MIT Media Lab LuminAR project... Of course, all of these are pre-dated by John Underkoffler's 1999 PhD on The I/O bulb and the luminous room!

Face Hacking ~ Projection-Mapped Skin Animes!

Mike Rougeau at Kotaku spots Japanese Face Hacking -- i.e. face-tracking and then projection-mapping with 3D animes!

Ultrahaptics ~ Focused Sound Touch Feedback!

BBC Click's Stephen Beckett spots Ultrahaptics...

"Researchers in Bristol have created a device that makes invisible objects in mid-air that you can touch and feel. The Ultrahaptics system works by focusing ultrasound waves emitted from a collection of tiny speakers."

Topomorphic Display ~ MIT's Reformable Surface!

RISD President Maeda spots MIT Media Lab Tangible Media maestros...

Tactus ~ Disappearing Touchscreen Buttons...

DailyMail spotlights Tactus disappearing touchscreen buttons...

"What if buttons could morph out of the surface of your device?,' says the company. 'Tactus provides a new dimension to touchscreens by enabling real, physical buttons that rise up from the surface on demand, and then recede back into the screen, leaving a perfectly flat, transparent surface when gone."

Leap Motion ~ Gestural Interface Promo...

Check out well-funded newco Leap Motion's promo...

Smart Window ~ Samsung's CES Award Winner

This Samsung transparent Smart Window gives a taste for what smart surfaces everywhere will be like at home, in vehicles, at office, plus... See Gizmodo and Geekosystem comments.

Mother of All Demos ~ Epic Engelbart NLS Debut

The Mother of All Demos is SRI innovator Doug Engelbart's 1968 public reveal of UI ideas which are now ubiquitous. He introduced the computer mouse, video & teleconferencing, hypertext, word processing, WYSIWYG, proto-Powerpoint, hypermedia, and a collaborative real-time text editor. Epic! Here's a nice WIRED 40th anniversary piece by Dylan Tweney and here at the Stanford archives, a nice selection of clips from the demo, and, yes, SRI's own archives.

EXOdesk ~ Interactive Tabletop PC Experience

Thanks to UniqueDaily for spotting the EXOdesk...

Seamless Computing ~ nsquared's Demo Rocks!

Thanks to Vitor Pamplona for spotting Engadget's piece spotlighting nsquared's Seamless Computing demo video! Very cool...