Feb 9 2009'Sixth Sense' Device Created, Sadly Doesn't Capture The Ghost That Lives In My Closet
The brainiacs at MIT have gone and created a 'sixth sense' device, which is basically a smart phone/camera/projector combo small enough to be worn on your face like my fist. KA-POW! Also, it does stuff, and won't leave you bruised.
The device...can turn any surface into a touch-screen for computing, controlled by simple hand gestures. The gadget can even take photographs if a user frames a scene with his or her hands, or project a watch face with the proper time on a wrist if the user makes a circle there with a finger. The device can recognize items on store shelves, retrieving and projecting information about products or even providing quick signals to let users know which choices suit their tastes.
Other than letting some of you live out your fantasy of looking as cool as Tom Cruise in 'Minority Report' it can really let you connect as a sixth sense device with whatever is in front of you," said MIT researcher Patty Maes."It is very much a work in progress. Maybe in ten years we will be here with the ultimate sixth-sense brain implant."
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Brain implants -- that's where I draw the line. There may be nothing but cobwebs, The Golden Girls theme song, and a candy bar wrapper up there, but, damnit, this is my brain we're talking about here. That said, I'll saw my own skull open if it gives me x-ray vision.
MIT researchers make 'sixth sense' gadget [physorg]
Thanks to Ain and Icehawg, who created a 7th sense device but their research was muffled because it was too far ahead of its time.
Reader Comments
1. Sarah - February 9, 2009 12:00 PM
I want one....
2. poodles - February 9, 2009 12:02 PM
2nd, boohoo, sarah you are the woman of the hour
3. todders - February 9, 2009 12:06 PM
When are they going to make one with more practical online porn usage? My hands get so tired...
hilarious video about Larry Flint's PORNO BAILOUT (watch out for the guy in the mustache):
http://www.digitalfuntown.com/videos/150
4. naas - February 9, 2009 12:13 PM
Sweet, it's about time we see some technology other than more useless iPhone applications. I sense a tokyoflash post on the horizon but I bet it'll be one nobody can tell time on.
Good morning GW, bacon for breakfast today?
5. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - February 9, 2009 12:20 PM
I have no issue communicating without the use of profanity. Quite frankly, the english language offers much more colorful adjectives. The point being made is simply that in this country, where this blog is hosted, we have freedom of speech. The same freedom of speech that would protect this blogger (GW) in court. I find it rather disingenuous of him to post NSFW content and genitalia jokes, then censor our comments about them.
*Am I the only person who saw the title and though "I see dead people"? I was both impressed and disappointed whe I read the post...
6. VI - February 9, 2009 12:20 PM
VI
7. Ollie Williams - February 9, 2009 12:35 PM
I'm with #1.
8. Ark - February 9, 2009 12:40 PM
I want one, but i can just imagine how it would look to see someone drawing a bunch of shapes and interacting with screens that no one else can see.
this is almost more crazy person-ish than blue-tooth..... anyways id still fight a room full of small children if i could have one
9. ko0pa - February 9, 2009 12:52 PM
shits weak
10. Daisy - February 9, 2009 1:22 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. YOu can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly lioke that scene in hte movie Never Back Down where Baja tried to sell Max a boondoggle keychain and he told her he made like infinity of those in scout camp.
11. Pew³ - February 9, 2009 1:45 PM
Bruce Willis climbed to the top of Mt Everest. You know what he saw?
Icy dead people.
12. Dirty - February 9, 2009 2:05 PM
hahahahaha! Icy!
13. Pat - February 9, 2009 2:09 PM
I was going to say, "Just like Minority Report" but the article beat me to it.
14. mooney - February 9, 2009 3:05 PM
i live in this stupid town
15. Spam Artist - February 9, 2009 4:38 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene from the movie Tender Dracula where one of the drunk overdubbed actresses is accidently cremated in an easy-bake oven.
16. Watch - February 9, 2009 5:44 PM
all it needs is a transparent screen
17. Antonio - February 9, 2009 6:49 PM
XVII
18. Techo - February 23, 2009 4:30 PM
Wow! A hand held slide show/power point in a hand held device?