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. It is still a mystery product that is not commercially available yet. But it will and will cost under $300 when commercially produced. The “Mistry” in question is Pranav Mistry, Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. How do we make the real world interact with information using gestures. That is a mystery Pranav and Pattie Mae have solved.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. (more…)
Day: March 21, 2009
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Solving a Mistry