Do you have a sixth sense?
In our everyday lives, we are using our 5 senses to take in information in the world around us and to respond to it: touching, seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting. Have you ever thought about what could be the sixth sense, particularly when living in 21st century, in the age of information technologies, where everything is going online and mobile?
Well, what discovered the MIT students is something that can totally be described as turning internet into the sixth human sense. Besides using all your 5 senses, now you are always in need of having some information from the computer or from internet. How about having all that with you and feeling like Tom Cruise in Minority Report?
SixthSense is the latest invention from MIT folks, which gives you the opportunity to get on spot information about anything you want with just having a flat surface. SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets you use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, SixthSense sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets you interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or your interaction with the object itself. SixthSense attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.
This was also presented on the TED conference, and you can watch how Pattie Maes of the labs Fluid Interfaces group presents it.
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September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
it’s 375 dollars in …
it’s 375 dollars in us lol i will fosho buy it
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
So Cool!!
So Cool!!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
cool!!!!
cool!!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
ohhhh! awesome then …
ohhhh! awesome then were getting close ;D
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
And the same goes …
And the same goes for people. As long as a person is searchable on the web, then the user can use the sixth sense device to retrieve that somebody’s info and project it on an improvised display service–i.e., as we saw in the video (in that specific case, the improvised display surface was the person’s body.
So to do the things seen in this video, we wouldn’t need everything “scanned” but rather, all we would need is that cool little device.
And to think, they already have a working prototype!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Bredekrist, when …
Bredekrist, when you do a search for a book review on the net, you do it by entering the book’s name into a search on your computer or cell phone, right? Because that is what I do. He is using a portable computing device (i.e. cell phone) to access the web. I gather that the projector and camera sensor attached to his cell phone merely provide a visual output/input for that information. So the book doesn’t need to be scanned but only to be on the internet for the device to retrieve and project.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
this is so friggen …
this is so friggen kewl
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Actually most of …
Actually most of what you saw can be done fairly easy/quickly. You have the device do the recognition of bar codes and words and then do internet searches on those keywords.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
We already have a …
We already have a giant database of ’scanned’ objects. It’s called the interweb, google is pretty nifty with it. All you’d have to do is do some image recog scan trough their cache. I’m not sure how easy/fast that could be but it could certainly be done.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
It’s a prototype …
It’s a prototype research project. Genius. Tech demonstration.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
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September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
ohh cool
ohh cool
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
correct, however …
correct, however when the technology is ready you will have chips in everything for a scanner, or wireless device to read as you walk by. It could just come from a local wi-fi in the store, download as you go!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
So get off the …
So get off the computer.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
when hes looking at …
when hes looking at a book for example, the thing wont reconize it if they havnt scanned the book so nothing will happen if he picks it up. thats what i mean by they need to scan everything and write what the it is. you cant make this stuff that simple.
if you write a book and dont publish it and youre the only one who knows about it, the projecter wont reconize it. neither the 3d glasses. even people need to be scanned for thing like in part 3:50 to happen.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
? scan what? they …
? scan what? they will eventually have glasses you can see 3 d pictures on in your field of view super imposed with information. No projector required.
Link it with a gps, google maps, your phone, and the internet and you have all of that at your finger tips without a screen or a keyboard.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
hes just using it …
hes just using it for projection it looks like. However even on current phones you can scan the upc and get information about the product.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
im not wearing that!
im not wearing that!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
to make this work, …
to make this work, they need to scan every everything in the world. so i dont think in our time we will see this
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I think this looks …
I think this looks awesome. Sure it may not be quite as functional as the demonstration would have you believe but I’m sure it’ll get there soon enough.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
this is lame, just …
this is lame, just a demonstaration. you cant actually achieve any of this without technology, they show you the dude looking at the wall, or taking pictures with his fingers. please, he is using a camera, and a projector. 100% lame, just an idea
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
what exactly is …
what exactly is going on with the toilet paper?? I mean he’s not even scanning the bar code is he? Is it telling him all those details out of nowhere? does it scan what the freaken paper is made out of?? that is so bs!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Technology = …
Technology = catering to complete laziness, inactivity, ad disjointedness from the natural world.
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
I don’t know about …
I don’t know about you guys but this kind of video/technology disturbsme. Do we really need this crap in our lives. Stop building technology to take us away from human contact for pete sake. Don’t u guys realize crap like this is slowly taking over our lives and soon we won’t have a leg 2 stand on. And believe me, im not paranoid, i’m just smart, i know what will end up from all this . I mean it’s 1 thing 2 have this crap in your home but now OUTSIDE!?!? give me a break!!!!
September 14th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Taking interent …
Taking interent usage outside our home and outside mobile phones and pc’s.