The "Mistry" in question is Pranav Mistry, Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. What do you get when you combine a Web cam, a projector and a mirror, all connected wirelessly to a Bluetooth smartphone. You get Sixth Sense. Access to information that exists somewhere can give you an advantage. Hey look what having a search engine can do to the way you retrieve information. The constraint is that you pretty much need to have a cell phone or a portable computer which will give you access to the database. The When connected to the internet, the huge database of real time data can create a game changing device like sixth sense. You can watch the demo at Ted.com TED is short for Technology Entertainment and Design. That is one of the places you go to find out what is cool. And if that peer group gives you a standing ovation, you know that you are on to something big.
March 21, 2009
