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http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37611/?p1=A4
So it looks like we will soon have virtual technology all over. They already have desktops that are holographic. Now we can control our iphones without even touching them. We just hook up a camera to your heads and poke at our hands as if we are holding our phones and it recognizes where on the phone's interface we are accessing. This is really cool, except for one small problem: We can't see what we are touching,. unless our phone is right next to our hands anyways. Sure if you were a phone zombie and memorized everywhere all of your buttons are, then you could navigate, but even, then, if you need to answer a call, how would you be able to see who is calling?
I think this is awesome technology, don't get me wrong. And some day in the future, they will probably be hooked up to some high-tech looking matrix-esque monocle so you can see what you are doing, but until then, it's not very convenient at all. That and people would think you're cracked for playing pretend phone games on your hand.
This does, however open a doorway for a whole bunch of other cool stuff that can be virtually controlled by motion. Also, it doesn't surprise me too much, considering Japan now has robots that can create and recognize facial cues and use them to determine a person's mood and the proper response to it.
It's exciting to be on the brink of a lot of really cool changes to the way we will be living in the next 10 or 20 years.