Banished those workaday smudges and smears! Though I’m not entirely impressed with the demo, Elliptic Labs’ concept is stellar — a touchless user input interface for tablets. Move over Microsoft, a new gesture-based system is coming and it’s not ballasted to the big screen.

MobileMag brings us news of Eliptic Labs and their Ultrasonic Touchless Input technology, which they will be displaying at CES (South Hall #36185).

“The idea is that you use touchless gestures to operate primary functions of a docked tablet in situations like when you have wet or greasy hands in the kitchen. In general tablets are made for being handheld. When it is docked you are often walking or standing further away, and then using a finger on the screen involves a change of modality. Rather than bending down, leaning forward or picking it up you can use larger movements a little bit further away to do things like volume up or next song without changing modality” — Eliptic CEO Stian Aldrin.

Cool stuff, though it needs to be more fully integrated with Apple’s mobile UI. Further, how cool it is right now depends on the price and if I might be tempted to put my iPad in an Eliptic dock if it cost somewhere South of $100…

What’s your take?

via Edible Apple