Hi Tech Gadgets Review

Hi Tech Gadgets Reviews-The Sixth Sense

For those of you have not seen the video of Pattie Maes of MIT, who gave a short but unbelievable presentation at this year’s TED you really need to see it.  Along with Pranav Mistry, who was instrumental in the findings created a wearable device that allows you to do some unbelievable things.  Even in this day of ever changing technology and our taste for cutting edge gadgets this goes way beyond what many of us have only dreamed about.  The devise, which only cost the $350 to “piece together”, allows you to project images on any solid surface, such as your hand, paper, walls, etc.  Images that were rendered include a phone key pad on your hand, a watch on your arm, a live newspaper feed on paper and photo’s you took onto a wall.  All of this was done by combing a camera, webcam, mirror, projector, phone and color caps for the index fingers and thumbs.

Pattie Maes

The device hangs around the neck, is obviously a proto type but works amazingly well for just adding technologies together.   In the video you see Pranav doing various tasks from making calls, buying items, playing tourist and others.  Take a look at the video; it’s amazingly easy for Pranav to use.

Pattie Maes demos the Sixth Sense

You can see from the video that he can walk up to any wall, project and then start to manipulate the information through the use of the caps on his fingers and thumbs.   Although the phone and watch are cool for most geeks to watch, the taking a picture with your fingers and thumbs in a square and then projecting them on a wall and manipulating them is awesome.

But seriously, projecting your phone keypad onto your hand?  How cool is that?  That sent my geek meter through the roof.  I want to run out and piece this thing together just so I can do that in public places!

Pranav Mistry

But the potential service offerings this holds is what really gets me, the example of understanding the toilet papers eco value or the ratings of a book really open up information at your fingertips possibilities.  One of the things that will be and has been debated on multiple blogs will surely revolve around chip implant into the brain to make this fully functional.

I personally hope it doesn’t take 10 years for this product to reach the market, I need the functionality yesterday!