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Minority Report-like wearable interface gives you a sixth sense
At the TED2009 conference yesterday, Pattie Maes from the Fluid Interfaces Group at the MIT Media Lab showed off a new way of getting info anywhere. Calling it a "Sixth Sense," she wore and demonstrated a $350 system consisting of a battery-operated pico projector hooked up to a wearable camera and a cellphone.
Controlled by hand gestures aided by color-coded tips on each index finger and thumb, the system senses what you're looking at, projecting data about it right in front of you. For example, pick up a book and an Amazon rating is projected onto it, along with reviews. Pick up a newspaper, and the system senses what the story you're looking at is about, and projects pertinent video. Imagine the possibilities!
While today's dim-in-daylight pico projectors, stuttering streaming video from cellphones and puny portable processor power have a few more development cycles to go before an idea like this is practical, this could someday be a useful way to get some well-informed shopping done in meatspace. Or, you could just forget going out there at all and buy everything online.
UPDATE: Here's a video demo!
Via Maximum PC
By Shazammer at 5:10 PM ON 02/05/09
Augmented reality is the future for alot of professions. But for the average person they would have really no reason to need to know details about all the objects around them. Can you say annoying?
By tali713 at 12:50 PM ON 02/06/09
Cute, not as nice on the augmented reality front as the eyeTap, but still that does look like an interesting input system.
on your cellphone!
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