Pattie Maes & Pranav Mistry: Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech HD

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

About Pattie Maes
At the MIT Media Lab's new Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.

About Pranav Mistry
Pranav Mistry is the genius behind Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

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[BVILLE92]

Brain Implants!?!? YIKES. i'll stick to my physical interaction with a human not by a light prjected from your chest. I love the invention. I just wouldnt like brain implants. :S

[munoyung]

Someday I will take people captive with my wirelss lab and project car crashes into your dreams until you have one. Sound good? Already been done by others. Automatic downloads into your brain. But while we wait for more curses we can feel the burn from stealthy communication planes. Cyber games what a god damn waste!

[kurtthewurt]

It's not the engineering involved in building the device, it's actually coming up with the idea for this!

[rahuldbhagat]

good work Pranav!!!

[yesitshere]

Very cute idea, would have  rather seen live examples instead of filmed ones.

Who knows how many times it was filmed and re-filmed before it worked correctly.

[palamut54]

Potentially quite remarkable, but 6th sense? Perhaps they are so much into virtual life style that they have lost the meaning of the concept of what 6th sense is.

[ArUlric7]

nah, i just think about the last part of the movie where they are talking about a brain implant.... and if that is not enough reason to assume they want to change humanity.... then what is, but i can understand why a person like you conciders this paranoia, its just an opinion, i thought that is why they made these reaction pages.

[fridgemedia]

paranoid much

[ArUlric7]

yeah lets all turn ourselves into mindless cyborgs who share the same thoughts about everything, lets not be creative, lets not make mistakes to learn from it and develop character and an independent mind, let us forget our first 5 senses and concentrate on a syntetical 6th one, that will surely make us soooo much more advanced...

not to mention that they can track you anywhere you go and probably read every single private tought, no its the future allright, mobile concentration camp future...

[benjambreeg]

'kin brilliant.