Here's a really interesting TED talk by Johnny Lee from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He demonstrates how you can use the Wii remote, an infrared pen, and some software that he has created and made available, to create an interactive whiteboard on basically any surface. He comments that the quality won't be quite as good as the commercial products, but at less than 1/40 the cost the mind boggles at the possiblilities here. Well worth watching.
More information, including a step by step demonstration of this with video, on Johnny Lee's website (navigate to the section headed 'Low-Cost Multi-point Interactive Whiteboards Using the Wiimote').
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Here is an app you may appreciate that can be user on the WiiBoard - demo of it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFsxev-2sk
Wao... the interactive whiteboard is very amazing. I would like to try if it really works. If it works well, we don't have to spend a lot of money on the commercial products. Yet, it may be more complicated to set up than what is shown in the video. I hope i can see a real demo.
Unfortunately, I haven't tried this yet myself. The Wiimote communicates with the computer with bluetooth so for some computers you would need to buy a bluetooth dongle. It looks pretty straightforward: basic hardware details are here.
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