Had to add this to the recent posts (here and here) about "smart interfaces". It's pretty much more of the same, but considering the potential this has for business, I think we should expect to see this type of stuff out pretty soon - for better or for worse!
RCS Highlights:
Researchers want to make shopping trips a special experience in the future by enabling passers-by to operate window displays with hand and facial gestures. Four cameras record the 3-D positions of people's hands, face and eyes and transform them into commands for selecting and purchase goods -- even after the shop has closed...
"Interactive shopping has been standard operating procedure in the web for a long time. Now, we're putting this technology into pedestrian passageways and shopping centers with the entire unit behind the window."...
The interactive shop window not only identifies how many people are in front of the shop window, but it also can suggest on the basis of the gathered data what products and information the people passing by are interested in...
