SixthSense technology

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology by Pranav Mistry reveals new tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data! This includes a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper called laptop. The potentials are numerous. This is perhaps the first and earliest paradigm shift of this century.

There are quite a few amazing technology innovations in the SixthSense technology. You can take a picture of a site or building by moving your fingers without having a camera with you! The palm of your hand becomes a calculator. You can use the digits that appear on your palm to dial a phone number too. The pads on your finger can enable you analyze the objects you’re holding. This one is useful for those who are blind.  You look at a magazine and then view the TV programs which describe it right on the paper you are holding. You can take a book from your library or buy one at the bookstore to view all the books on the web that are related or similar to that book right on its and on its cover page. When you hold the weather page of a magazine in your hands the online data about the next few days forecast could appear on the map you are looking at. When you fly, you can look at your boarding pass and the latest flight information from the web will appear on it. As soon as you shake hands with someone, you can tell their names, occupations, etc. on their shirts, of course if they’re willing to share.  This technology will affect that way we interact with people! 

The forces which affect this vision involve our increasing demand for accessing information from the web. The physical world gets into the digital world without all the rituals we go through to interact with computers! There are simply too many gadgets and equipment that we have to carry on with ourselves, such as smart phones and tablets, to access information these days. A major force that drives this technology involves excessive gadgets and hand-held devices we move around with ourselves

This technology aims at leveraging our knowledge about everyday objects and how we should use them to help us with our interactions with the digital world. Rather than using the keyboard and mouse, why can’t we use the objects around us such as sticky notes, our hands, etc. to interact with data?

In all experiments, a part of the “physical” world is brought in the digital world. This new technology vision enables us to take your digital world anywhere with us.

During the Q&A session, Mistry said he is planning to open-source the software behind SixthSense so its possibilities could become available to all programmers.

References

Ted Talks Video “Craig Venture: On the verge of synthetic life” retrieved from

http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html