This year’s CeBIT has certainly had its share of surprises (police raids, anyone?). This Minority Report-like interface, captured on video by an attendee, is our favorite find from the show.

On display at the T-Online booth, the interface consists of a huge screen where several people can pretend to be Tom Cruise play with the device at the same time. Using just their hand, visitors can move objects around, rotate, resize, and interact with them.

Is this the beginning of a Pre-Crime department, or just another take on Microsoft’s Surface? Either way, it looks fun to play with, although we can’t imagine how practical the system would be. Check out a video after the jump. Read more »

Nokia has recently announced their Morph concept, a gadget which should (in about 100 years) replace everything you carry in your pocket today.

Featured in The Museum of Modern Art “Design and The Elastic Mind” exhibition, the Morph aims to be the only gadget you’ll ever need due to its adaptable nature. Made of flexible and transparent materials, Nokia imagines this gadget taking on just about any shape and size.

For example, it can start in the shape of a cell phone, but then unfold into a screen to view movies and other media on. This larger screen would incorporate input devices such as keyboards and touch pads as well to allow for communication. It could then be folded up into a bracelet that you wear on your wrist. As Nokia says, the Morph would “allow us to communicate and interact in unprecedented ways.”

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Visitors to London’s Carnaby Street will find a new attraction – one they can themselves play with and control. Behind a pane of glass is a large screen which you can command not by touch, but by waving your hand in front of it.

The screen was developed by UK based agency ‘The Alternative’ to serve as advertising for Orange. Right now users of the screen can wave their hands in the air to read news, watch movie clips, and listen to music.

The screen is the first of its kind, employing a large projection screen and a highly advanced piece of motion capture technology. Goodbye iPod and iPhone – your days of making us click and press are just about over. Soon, my friends, we will be able to control you by waving our hands in the air like maniacs.

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