SixthSense: Wearable Gadget

Its truly amazing what this gadget can do. This what the author wants to define it as... "SixthSense is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information". I am not sure if you guessed it right what this gadget can do. Here is the deal.

The gadget is worn on the body. It has a built-in camera and projector. With the camera it can detect the motions or gestures done by the person wearing it. Depending on the gesture it performs appropriate action. The gesture interface is more or less like the one in the minority report movie, where the users makes gestures with fingers. But what puts this device much ahead of minority report is its ability to project on any surface using the built-in projector. And what puts this far ahead, is its ability to get information from the web about the object being seen and project that information back on the object in appropriate manner.

If you are in a bookstore and if you have the cover page of the book in front of you, this gadgets detects the book title, get the rating and reviews of this book from amazon, and project this information back on the book. It provides menus to get more information. Isnt that amazing ? Not impressed ? I am sure you will be thrown off your seat if you see this video. I just talked about one of the innumerable possibilities. The following video lists a bunch of them.



The genius behind this masterpiece is "Pranav Mistry". Here is his personal website and his description about the project. Here is an interview with him about the project. He is currently doing PhD from MIT. He had done his masters from IIT Bombay, intrestingly not in computer science but in design. The prototype costed them only $350. Once this goes to commercial production, I am sure this can cost much lesser. I guess that this will be a revolutionary product given it potential. Great job dude !