It’s the British, not the Japanese, who are amazing us this time. The Light Touch is a display projector and touchscreen in one, letting you create an interactive environment on any flat surface. Obviously handy for smallerising (yes, smallerising) portable computing, but I was watching Pan’s Labyrinth last night, and I have another application in mind.

You know those animations where a kid in a movie opens a book and the ink spread out and displays the page in a kind of spreading creeper of art? I want to see the Light Touch hovering over a book that is blank except for a few small points of reference for the computer, and have an interactive book that knows when you’ve turned pages.

That’s possible now. You know why? Because we’re living in the future.