Twenty Minutes Into The Future

So have you seen this?

A Japanese company has developed technology that would allow us to physically interact with holograms. Physically. Like touch them. How cool is that?

Apparently it works by creating a field of force (or a force field, if you will) that resists a person's physical touch. So when you touch a holographic surface, you feel like you are touching something. (Presumeably, it isn't yet sophisticated enough to feel "furry" or "scratchy" or "cold," but that's coming, I'm sure.)

So cool. So many practical applications for that. Like this:

And this:

I mean, a holodeck. How can you get more practical than that? Imagine yourself interacting with me and Adam, in a holo-world you can see, hear, and touch. We'd run along the rooftops of the Helsinki museum district, priceless works of art in hand--Adam not quite catching us until we let him.

Then we exchange some witty repartee, engage in some mild melee action (the kind of repartee accompanied by Pow, Bam, and my favorite... Thwack). And, tempers stoked, heartrates skyrocketing, breathless Adam grabs me by the--

Hey! Wait a sec! Are you still here? WFT? Ever hear of privacy? Get your own holodeck experience, perv.

Oh yeah. That reminds me. Porn. Hologram Forcefield Technology would be good for porn.