Sixth Sense technology

I wanted to mention this article as I watch and read TED talks sometimes and came across Pranav Mistry’s interesting research on Sixth sense technology. Pranav Mistry did his bachelors from my city Mumbai from IIT Bombay(Mumbai) and right now a PHD student working on Fluid interfaces at MIT Media labs. He thought orf Sixth Sense technology a technology to integrate information with the real world. SixthSense is a wearable gestural device interface that relates physical world around us and digital information and enables natural hand gestures to interact with that information. It is observed that information we deal regularly with is just confined with paper or interfaces on digital screens or buttons. Here this technology bridges this gap and allows one to interact with the natural world via hand gestures and thus shows virtual reality. This technology consists of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The projector projects information and the camera and sensor for hand lets one interact with the information interface and produce results. The current prototype creates just costs $300 to build and I feel this can be a great future device where people wont feel the need to carry digital smart devices to interact with the information and a gesture and sixth sense can do the work. This device can also be used by various NGO’s for people with disability and hearing impaired and dumb who can express and interact with the world using the hand gestures.