Anime computer interface might be a reality

Sony's new experimental user interface.  Very innovative.

Some background on the designer.
Jun Rekimoto doing some very conceptual physical user interface research at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Tokyo.

"I am interested in designing a new human computer interaction style for highly portable computers, that will be situation-aware and assistance-oriented rather than command oriented. Using this style, a user will be able to interact the real world that is augmented by the computer's synthetic information. The user's situation will be automatically recognized by applying a range of recognition methods, allowing the computer to assist the user without having to be directly instructed by the user. Before the end of the decade, I expect that such computers will be as commonplace as today's Walkmans, electronic hearing aids, eyeglasses, and wristwatches."