The impressive innovation which just been assumed to be a fiction can come into reality; it’s nothing but the sixth sense involvement in communication with different parts of the world.
The blue eyed boy stole the show at TED India Conference, was undoubtedly, Mr. Pranav Mistry, who wowed the audience with a demo of Sixth Sense, an inexpensive, wearable device for overlaying digital information onto the physical world.
The device enables new kinds of interactions between the real world and the world of data seamlessly. And the world Mr. Mistry dreams of making a reality will soon be available to everyone, where you and I can integrate information to everyday objects, without having to catty computers around. Mr Mistry came up with Sixth Sense to satisfy his impulse to paint the physical world with digital information.
Using a camera that understands human gestures, Sixth Sense is a technology that integrates the digital and physical worlds, rather than forcing one to switch back and forth between the two. “ Human beings are interested in information and not in computers, with the help of Sixth Sense you will be able to compute on a piece of paper or even use the palm of your hand as your phone keyboard, without actually using a physical computer or mobile phone” said Mr. Pranav Mistry. “I called this device as WUW or Wear your World’ but it is now known as Sixth Sense the world over,” he recalls.
Mr. Mistry, a PhD student in Pattie Maes’ fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab became a accentuate person overnight after presenting a demo at TED 2009 this spring.
Sixth Sense was voted the ‘Invention of the Year by Popular Science magazine in the US and Mistry won one of Technology Review’s TR35 Young Inventor Awards.
“Sixth Sense is a small rectangular, pendant like device which has a camera and embedded software in it. This will enable you to wear your world around your neck. You can click pictures by framing your object within your fingers, the camera on the device will record the object and the software will recognize the fact that you are trying to photograph that object. No need to carry a camera around,” he explained.
How much will Sixth- Sense, a device that uses a camera that understands human gestures cost? “It will cost less than Rs 15000($300) and that too for the hardware, the software is for free. It will take around 2-3 months before I can make it available as open source software.”
No matter with new curves involved in the technology to communicate, the world still hunting to find coexistence of all the races and coming with the Sixth Sense definitely has a part to change and rule the world.