Pranav Mistry, the genius MIT grad had decided to go the open source way with his “Sixth Sense” project. Sixth sense is rhe closest we have got to realising the awesome coolness of Tom Cruise in Minority Report flicking away screens with his fingers using gestures . Sixth Sense is the “in laymans terms” is combination of Micrsoft Surface with take anywhere capability. It consists of a projector and a mirror connected to a cell phone or any device connected to the Internet. The beauty of this wearable computer is the fact that it can utilize any surface as a screen. If you have a wall in front of you, it can project the screen onto the wall. Any surface right from your hand to a person standing in front of you can be used as a surface for the projection. Imagine a future when all you have to do to say ” take a picture” is make a hand sign (not maybe the hand sign you had in mind, you would look stupid making that sign to take a picture), or say you are meeting a person for the first time, the computer can scour the net for information on that person and display that info on the persons shirt. Forgot your watch?? Just draw a circle on your hand and the time displayed watch style on your hand, pick up a book and it displays it’s Amazon rating and user reviews right in rhe book in the book store. without you having to do anything. This makes endless possibilities possible.
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Made with off the shelf, cost comes to a paltry $350. Who knows andoid 5.0 Truffle and iPhone OS 6.0 could be the first commercial devices to ship with this “Sixth Sense”. Till then I can’t wait for some hacker in China to come out with the first public implemention of Sixth Sense.

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