What happens when you essentially combine Microsoft's Kinect technology with a mirror?  You get their newly touted innovation of the "holoflector".  That's right, get ready to add a new term to your watch-list of emerging technologies, because this holoflector is the same type of display-behind-mirror output promised by every futurism video and sci-fi movie for the past decades (or more).

The interesting twist?  Instead of being an interactive (touchscreen, maybe) display device, the holoflector utilizes motion sensing to treat an actual human user as an input device.  While this reminds us of Samsung's new initiative to make remote controls obsolete for televisions, it stands to be said that all motion-sension projects are woefully behind-their-time... or, at least behind the time they should have made headlines.

As we see OLED continue to develop, and new display types after it all furthered by nanotechnology, it seems as if we might be headed towards a truly integrated an interactive computing experience.

My one question to Microsoft... why not incorporate the Pixel Sense from your second generation Surface devices and really give us something to be creeped out about?  It's much more futuristic if the mirror itself serves as a giant eye rather than relying on a top-mounted camera.

What we hate to admit it, the creep-out factor is typically a good indicator of a lasting emerging technology.