http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.c3b86e67d015d664d720fa421d679c0f.311&show_article=1
QuoteUS university researchers have created a portable "sixth sense" device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly channel Internet information into daily routines.
The device created by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists can turn any surface into a touch-screen for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures.
The gadget can even take photographs if a user frames a scene with his or her hands, or project a watch face with the proper time on a wrist if the user makes a circle there with a finger.
The MIT wizards cobbled a Web camera, a battery-powered projector and a mobile telephone into a gizmo that can be worn like jewelry. Signals from the camera and projector are relayed to smart phones with Internet connections.
"Other than letting some of you live out your fantasy of looking as cool as Tom Cruise in 'Minority Report' it can really let you connect as a sixth sense device with whatever is in front of you," said MIT researcher Patty Maes.
Maes used a Technology, Entertainment, Design Conference stage in Southern California on Wednesday to unveil the futuristic gadget made from store-bought components costing about 300 dollars (US).
The device can recognize items on store shelves, retrieving and projecting information about products or even providing quick signals to let users know which choices suit their tastes.
The gadget can look at an airplane ticket and let the user know whether the flight is on time, or recognize books in a book store and then project reviews or author information from the Internet onto blank pages.
The gizmo can recognize articles in newspapers, retrieve the latest related stories or video from the Internet and play them on pages.
"You can use any surface, including your hand if nothing else is available, and interact with the data," Maes said.
"It is very much a work in progress. Maybe in ten years we will be here with the ultimate sixth-sense brain implant."
Sounds cool. Any pics of what this thing looks like?
Are you kidding me?? This thing will be recording your every move and thought to the giant NSA/CIA data vacuum. This will make cameras on street corners seem quaint... :)
Ultimately it will be marketed to teenagers first. It will be one of those "must have" gadgets that parents seem unable to say no to. Soon everybody will not only have the V.1.0 model we will be clamoring for the V.1.5 upgrade or the rare "I have one and you dont" V.2.0. Only when we get to the V.3.0 version will we realize we have all been absorbed into the hive.... BZzzzzzzzzzz.... :D
Quote from: BridgeTroll on February 05, 2009, 01:47:17 PM
Ultimately it will be marketed to teenagers first. It will be one of those "must have" gadgets that parents seem unable to say no to. Soon everybody will not only have the V.1.0 model we will be clamoring for the V.1.5 upgrade or the rare "I have one and you dont" V.2.0. Only when we get to the V.3.0 version will we realize we have all been absorbed into the hive.... BZzzzzzzzzzz.... :D
And by the time we bet to V6.6.6, we're really screwed. :o