i have also seen some videos on Ted talks. This is really amazing and unbelievable. its cool. this guy pranav is genius.

See it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg He's a young lad of around 28 years from India.He's the young inventor of the year 2009 and one of the top inventors of world alive today. Words fail to describe what he is.Know about him more ... http://pranavmistry.com/. Education never goes a waste.He did the right investment at the right time and it fetched rich dividends at such a young age.Have a look at his CV, aha..,don't miss out on his CPAs.A full 5/5 during Phd at MIT. http://pranavmistry.com/files/pranav_cv.pdf His sixth sense technology had added a new phase to the era of scientific revolotion. It's a giant leap ahead of all the wild goose chase in the technosector.It's not only simple to handle,but really cost effective(around $300).The way he had made things look that easy,is not any geek's plaything.What makes me respect him the most is, he believed in bringing the technology to common man and make their lives better rather than commercializing it and sit on a pile of paper trash.

Could you please give the link to the video? The one you posted doesn't play! I would very much want to watch it. . Answer edited. I watched 'Talks Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense' at this link: http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html . From the lecture and the demonstrations I would surely say this is going to be the next great leap forward in information technology. What information we want gets projected right in front of us by a tiny instrument the size of a cell phone! Who ever could have thought the proverbial sixth sense could be bought in the nearest super market for the asking at the cost of a cell phone! . I am very happy to learn that you are associating yourself with this project, Engineer. This would be a really amazing worthwhile project to be associated with. All the best. Keep us updated. . Watched the YouTube clip too. That Pranav Mistry is going to release free source software on this technology within a month is great news. Really most impressive. How many uses we could think of for this? Innumerable. Simply incredible. Thanks for bringing this to our notice.

First I've heard of it under that name. However it looks like another step towards Augmented Reality as described in Shadowrun 4th Edition to me.

Fascinating, really. Thank you very much. This is really showing how individuals can take the technology currently at out fingertips and apply it in meaningful ways to our surrounding envirnment. He's taken some ideas, which for want of a better term I call "wouldn't it be neat if (fill in the blank)..." and then asked himself "How would I do this using today's technology?" What he's shown us is that, unlike the world of just a few decades ago, we no longer have to INVENT fantasy technologies to give us the fantasies we wish to have as reality NOW. That technology is HERE, just waiting for people to apply it. When I was at Purdue back in the early 80's, studying EET (Electrical Engineering Technology) I had my own idea for my senior design project. Unfortunately, events conspired against me in my senior year...my health went bad for several weeks, causing my grades to drop, my wife was pregnant and I had no insurance, I was out of money... I left college just before the end of my 7th semester to join the Navy in the nuclear program, so my project never came to fruition...it was an interactive, talking lapboard which was going to be designed with stroke victims in mind, to enable them to use voice synthesizers to actually speak to people. Such a thing at the time would have been an extremely innovative use of emerging technologies in a very practical way. Today, such a thing should be much simpler I should imagine. I see what this guy proposes as something that could be used in a very similar role, a couple generations beyond anything I ever envisioned then. This guy is GOOD!

Very interesting. (I watched the YouTube video in that answer: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/8341308 ) I found some information about this: "Pranav Mistry, originally from Palanpur, is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT, Parnav worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft and recieved his Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay. He has earned his fame as the main person behind Sixth Sense. Mistry has been called "one of the two or three, most, best inventors in the world right now" by Chris Anderson." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pranav_Mistry "SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface device that augments the physical world with digital information and lets people use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. It was developed by Pranav Mistry, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab. The SixthSense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant-like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The device projects visual information, enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around the wearer to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks the user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction. The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. The map application lets the user navigate a map displayed on a nearby surface using hand gestures, similar to gestures supported by multi-touch based systems, letting the user zoom in, zoom out or pan using intuitive hand movements. The drawing application lets the user draw on any surface by tracking the fingertip movements of the user’s index finger. SixthSense also recognizes user’s freehand gestures (postures). For example, it implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the ‘framing’ gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken. SixthSense also lets the user draw icons or symbols in the air using the movement of the index finger and recognizes those symbols as interaction instructions. For example, drawing a magnifying glass symbol takes the user to the map application or drawing an ‘@’ symbol lets the user check his mail. The SixthSense system also augments physical objects the user is interacting with by projecting more information about these objects projected on them. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch. The current prototype system costs approximately $350 to build." Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SixthSense_(device%29

Very exciting - thanks for sharing the linkage.

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