Tell The Kids It’s OK To Touch The Windows in Your Toyota
Jason Lancaster | Jul 27, 2011 | Comments 5
When I was a kid, my dad would have a mini-meltdown anytime I got my greasy kid fingers on a clean surface. Window glass, TV screens, mirrors – the rule was always “don’t touch!” If the video below is a window into the future, my dad ain’t gonna like it.
Toyota Europe’s R&D division, working in conjunction with the Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, has developed a cool “augmented reality” window system that might be best explained by watching the video below.
Window to the World (CIID/Toyota) from CIID on Vimeo
What do you think? Cool, right?
The thing is, there are more questions than answers right now. It’s far too soon to expect to see this as an option on your next Toyota. However, the technology behind the system – while expensive – is readily available. It’s not like this is science fiction or anything…
You can read more about it on Gizmag.com
Filed Under: Auto News
stupid if you ask me. Why would anyone spend loads of money to keep the kids amused in the backseat? I would rather see the kids touch the glass though from the outside to close my darn doors vs. the paint and door handles. You cannot believe how many fine and some not so fine scratches in the paint there is with either the kids or the misses with the fingernails behind the door handles and around the door handles area that show sign of wear instead of doing what I always tell them which they never listen is to CLOSE THE DARN CAR/TRUCK DOORS FROM THE GLASS PORTION OF THE OUTSIDE NOT ON THE PAINTED SURFACES. I guess I am anal about scratches, but there are lots of fine scratches on all my vehicles just from closing the doors from the outside around the door handle area and behind the door handles on the tundra all be avoided by touching the glass to close the darn doors.
Too bad the video is completely fake.
mk – LOL, I hear you. Like I said in the intro, my Dad was all about monitoring scratches caused by greasy fingers.
I think it’s an interesting idea, but I agree that the practical application – as shown above – isn’t too useful to me either.
dk – Yep.
Don’t buy darker colored vehicles LOL…..
TXTee – Good call. My folks always buy light-colored cars for that very reason.