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# Wearable projector lets you broadcast the awful things you text to people right on your body
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/have-splinter-cell-convictions-projected-text-real-life/
- Published: 2014-02-21T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T16:26:55.000Z
- Description: It’s hard to imagine that taking your phone out of your pocket would ever be considered “too much effort,” but should that happen, there’s a device disguised as a necklace that can project new messages directly onto your hand, or the ground in front of you. While the prototype is actually the size o
- Author: Psfk
- Tags: News, hud, PSFK, science, wearables, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

It’s hard to imagine that taking your phone out of your pocket would ever be considered “too much effort,” but should that happen, there’s a device disguised as a necklace that can project new messages directly onto your hand, or the ground in front of you. While the prototype is actually the size of a backpack, the team hope to get the technology to a point where it can also be used to give directions, and perform other smartphone-related functions.

The system would rely on specific gestures, each of which can be used to perform a different function. Theoretically, anything that requires you to look at a screen could be translated to work on this new device in the future. As Christian Winkler from the [University of Ulm](http://www.uni-ulm.de/en?ref=killscreen.com) in Germany explains, “The projector gives you a window into the virtual world that you carry around like a flashlight, as a way of serendipitously accessing information.”

As reported by the [New Scientist](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25065-necklace-projectors-will-throw-emails-onto-the-floor.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news&ref=killscreen.com#.UwM0NEKSxnR), William Coggshall, an analyst based in California is slightly more skeptical, and not just about the power requirements for a portable projector. His concern is that because the human hand “is not a very flat or uniform screen,” it could make a message of any significant length almost impossible to decipher.

[University of Ulm](http://www.uni-ulm.de/en?ref=killscreen.com)

*Source: [NewScientist](http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25065-necklace-projectors-will-throw-emails-onto-the-floor.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news&ref=killscreen.com#.UwM0NEKSxnR)*

  
*[This post](http://www.psfk.com/2014/02/message-projection-necklace.html?ref=killscreen.com#!wpmXI) was originally written by [Ross Brooks](http://www.psfk.com/author/ross-brooks?ref=killscreen.com) for* [PSFK](http://www.psfk.com/?ref=killscreen.com).