Who knew shipping containers could fly?

Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have developed a way for people to use their own skin as a keypad or pull down menu to control MP3 devices, make phone calls or play games.

It’s called Skinput. The user wears an armband, which contains a very small projector that projects a menu or keypad onto a person’s hand or forearm.

Kings of Leon have a disaster of a gig at Reading Festival 2009.