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Unmanned Spaceflight.com _ Chit Chat _ SixthSense

Posted by: ustrax Jan 12 2010, 12:36 PM

Are you guys familiar with SixthSense, Mistry's invention? It won INVENTION OF THE YEAR 2009 award by Popular Science (June, 2009)
Freaks me out!
http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html
Any space-related implications?...

Posted by: Dominik Jan 13 2010, 10:20 PM

Impressive technology. For me, this is the most fascinating invention for years!

Posted by: imipak Jan 14 2010, 01:38 PM

"...I see dead planets"?

There's a lot of interesting work in the augmented reality direction. ISTR seeing quite a few MediaLab demos of such over the years, most of which never progressed beyond the cool-looking proof-of-concept stage. No doubt someone will find the sweet-spot sooner or later.