Want to use your arm like an iPad?

Reasonably new tech such as tablets and even the Apple Watch could soon be obsolete – and replaced by a humble bracelet.

Or at least, that’s the dream of French startup Cicret, who reckon that our Skin will be the smart device screen of the future, reports UK-based daily The Mirror.

They’ve been working for the past 12 months on a prototype wristband that will project images on to your arm, turning it into a mini tablet screen, The Mirror reports.

It’ll be armed (geddit?) with a projector and a row of eight proximity sensors that will pick up your finger movements as you tap, pinch and slide to your heart’s content.

The only down side to all of this is that it doesn’t actually exist yet – most of the footage in that video is computer-generated, as confirmed by Cicret’s Guillaume Pommier in an interview with a cynical WTOP.

However, Cicret insists that the first prototype will be ready in about three weeks’ time.

For such a small device, it’ll be packed with an array of features, including an accelerometer and a vibration module, along with an LED for notifications.

Naturally there’ll be Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and Cicret say it’ll even have a Micro USB port.

The bracelet will be available in 16GB and 32GB models and should cost upwards of $400 (£250) when it hits the mass market in about a year and a half.

But will it happen? Is it technologically possible?