6th sense technology - “Mistry” unveiled

The innovation “6^th sense technology” as Pranav Mistry calls it will allow you to make just one expression on knowing about it, and that would be ‘jaw-dropping’. A mind-blowing conception that has led to a new technology, which none would have thought would come true and that’s the linking of physical and digital world. To help you to understand this easily, the imagination in the movie “Minority report” when the actor just moves his hand and fingers across the digital images appearing on the wall to browse through information is going to become possible in reality.

Pranav Mistry, a student of MIT is the master mind of the 6^th sense technology. He and his team at MIT media lab has developed a 6^th sense device which comprises of a camera, projector, mirror, a pair of colour papers and a communication device like cell phone. When you wear this device and stand before a wall, you can draw an image in the air using your fingers and you can see the image that you are drawing, on the wall in front of you. Wear this device and walk out in your park, make a gesture of taking a picture with your fingers in front of a tree, guess what, the picture of the tree is stored in you device. Amazing, isn’t it?

You would have seen in the movie “Harry potter”, where in the wizard’s world videos appear in the newspapers. This can also be done with Pranav’s device. Wear the device, and start reading a newspaper, the device will scan the images and text in the newspaper and display videos related to the news on the newspaper held in your hand.

If you want to know the time, just draw a circle on your wrist using your fingers and a clock will appear at that position. If you are sitting bored and want to play a game, all you have to do is to hold a paper in your hand; the game will be screened on the paper. Use the same paper as your joystick and play the game. All this are not imagination, but is possible in the real world. Watch what more miraculous stuff this technology can do at http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry

The basic laboratory model of the 6^th sense device costs only 300$. The most shocking and appreciable thing is that Pranav is planning to make an open source publication of this new technology so that more people can use this technology to develop 6^th sense devices. His motive is to reduce the number of gadgets used for various tasks and use just one device that performs the operation of the entire lot, by linking the physical world and the digital world. I guess, the Matrix world is not too far now!!!

Don’t miss this presentation video on 6^th sense technology by Pranav: http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html