The Sixth Sense - An Incredible Technology

This is amazing and incredible.....The digital world interacting with the physical world....They called it the sixth sense....Long back I looked at Microsoft touching interface and was really fascinated at its mutiple touch features.....But this time the TED folks has gone a step ahead and invented this wonderful tool that connects the physical world into the world of data.....This device could recognize three kinds of gestures-multi-touch, free hand and iconic gestures.....Just imagine drawing a circle on your wrist gives you time....Imagine you meeting a person and can get information about him PROJECTED ON HIM within seconds.....Imagine a photo gesture actually captures a picture for you.....Yes this could be done by a wearable device that actually captures the physical world with its camera and then projects information about the object onto a plain surface right infront of us.....It is designed and developed by a MIT Genius Mr. Pranav Mistry.....

The genius talked about his ideas and concepts behind inventing this device-"I started working on the concept of merging the physical world and the digital world.....I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world. I'm good with digital technology, but I start to miss the physical world. I miss riding my bike, talking to friends. Technology now separates us from the physical world more and more. Even social networking sites are taking us away from the physical world. 

At the lab, we like making things that we can touch, we can feel, we can take with us wherever we want to go, that we know how to interact with. The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine."

He also said that one could use this system for people who have accessibility problems, blind and deaf people.... The camera can act as a third eye for the blind person, and tell them what it sees. It could be an ear for a deaf person.....

However I fear that this system will make us more and more dependent on technology as we become more biased to its information rather than our own rational thinking.....