“Sixth Sense,” game-changing wearable tech Gadget

Recall the scenes in Tom Cruise’s movie “Minority Report”, Screen sequences are getting in to reality now.  ”A Wearable projector with 6th sense intelligence”, i can assure you after seeing the video you will have  wow effect. This demo — from Pattie Maes’ lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry — was the buzz of TED. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment.

The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user’s hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

Just by wearing this gadget, and few sensors in your nail can do many work. Functionality of Mobile phone, camera, wrist watch, and internet surfing were demonstrated in this video. This is gonna make our life lot easier. Lot of effort have been put in to create workable model.  Let us march towards new world of Tech Gadgets.

Why should you listen to Pattie Maes

Pattie Maes was the key architect behind what was once called “collaborative filtering” and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations — or “things like this” — fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes’ Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology (and then a startup) that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they’d never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste. This brought a sea change in the way we interact with software, with culture and with one another.

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Thanks to TED

About Sixth sense project http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/index.htm

About Pattie http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/pattie_maes.html

Brain Behind Sixth Sense http://www.ted.com/index.php/speakers/pranav_mistry.html

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