Float Photon - The SpacePad

这场大流行突显了呼吸道颗粒从一个人传播到表面，然后从另一个人的手传播到另一个人的脸的可能性。例如新冠肺炎、猴痘、流感。目前WHO和NHS的Covid指南建议避免在公共场所接触表面。这在医院和全科医生手术等易受伤害和患病的人经常光顾的医疗保健环境中尤其相关。目前，NHS迅速采用触摸屏显示器进行患者和访客互动是出于节省成本的效率。然而，这种采用给感染控制带来了新的挑战，因为这些触摸屏是不同公众成员使用的高频触摸屏。最常见的是每一次使用后清洁的理念，这会导致效率降低和生物危害废物的大量增加，从而造成不符合碳中性的环境问题。重复的清洁也会损坏设备。其他方法，如紫外线灭菌，由于某些细菌能在暴露中存活下来，并不完全有效。显然需要一个没有负担、成本效益高、零传播、不产生废物和碳中性的人类界面。浮子光子接口(FPI)就是这样一种解决方案。这种颠覆性技术将人体界面漂浮在太空中，因此没有用户接触，也没有表面病原体传播。FPI是一种新的颠覆性3D交互技术，它利用制造设备的最新进步，首次将不戴眼镜的实时3D图像的成本降低到消费者水平。已经完成的算法和软件开发超越了昂贵的全息和光场解决方案，并被证明是将科幻变成科学事实的概念证明。

The pandemic has highlighted the transmissibility of respiratory particles onto surfaces from one person and then from hand to face by another. e.g. Covid-19, Monkeypox, flu. Current WHO and NHS Covid guidance recommends avoiding contact with surfaces in public places. This is especially pertinent in health care settings such as hospitals and GP surgeries where vulnerable and sick people frequent.The current rapid adoption of touchscreen displays in the NHS for patient and visitor interaction is driven by cost saving efficiencies. However, this adoption has brought a new challenge of infection control as these touchscreens are high frequency touch items by diverse members of the public.Current mitigation techniques are unsatisfactory. The most common is the clean after every user philosophy that leads to reduced efficiency and a massive increase in biohazard waste that creates an environmental problem that is not carbon neutral. The repetitive cleaning also damages the equipment.Other methods like sterilisation by UV light is not fully effective as certain bacteria survive exposure.There is a clear need for a non-burdensome, cost effective, zero transmission human interface that is non-waste creating and carbon neutral. The Float Photon Interface (FPI) is such a solution. This disruptive technology floats the human interface in space so there is no user contact and no surface pathogen transmission.FPI is a new disruptive 3D interactive technology that takes advantage of recent advances in manufacturing equipment to bring down the cost of real-time 3D images without glasses to consumer level for the first time. The algorithm and software development already done leapfrogs expensive holographic and light field solutions and is demonstrable as proof of concept bringing what was science fiction into science fact.