I watched a video on youtube a few months back and ever since i always wanted to share this information with other computer scientists or people who find new innovative technology interesting.
We interact with a lot of things during our daily life. Sometimes strange and new things and sometimes the same old. For example : while shopping I come across new or relatively stranger products(to me), I see different people on the street everyday, interact with different objects and environments etc. Now imagine a sixth sense that provides us relative information over all of our interactions. For example : I would want to know what is this new product that I came across? how is it reviewed? , whether I came across any celebrity by chance while walking on the street, some technology which keeps track of where I am going and what is around me etc. You can argue that the new Smartphones already do this. But, we have to interact with them in order to do so. What i am talking about here is a 'Sixth Sense' which will help us do the tasks mentioned above. This is what the video was exactly about.
Pranav Mistry, an IIT(Indian Institute of Technology) and MIT graduate, has developed a Sixth Sense device which through the use of a mobile phone provides us with this 'Sixth Sense'. A device which by tracking our hand gestures, understands and provides us with what we want. For example: a comic gesture of taking an image will take a photo, any wall/screen/surface can be used as an interface for this device, any object that the camera on the device tracks is looked up on the internet for more information etc. All this and more for the cost of somewhere about 250-350$. I know that I can't wait till it comes out in the market! Hope you guys found it interesting as well!
PS: If you wanna know more you can see the project in more detail(with videos) in the following link. It is really amazing:
http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
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