Finally, the kind of thing people in the 50s thought we'd have by the year 2000. This is unnerving in an alarming way, the fact that someone can instantly look up your Facebook page simply by looking at you. I just hope this doesn't end up in the hands of government officials or the results could be disastrous. | |
wow...just wow. This could be really really cool to have if it gets implememented in everyday life | |
Standing ovation indeed, well done that man! Loved the making a phone call on your hand and drawing a watch on your wrist. As cool as a lot of the aspects of this are, does anyone else agree with me that maybe life might get a bit boring if we get the internet to tell us all about everything we pick up? Seems that it might take a lot of the mystery out of things. (Not that the mysteries of toilet roll are all that great, but hopefully you see my point) | |
Solution: the On/Off button. | |
Sweet, Ghost in the Shell and Minority Report had a baby. | |
Edit NVM | |
8O This is like something I used to daydream about. As someone who has a lot of trouble keeping faces and names straight, I always thought how cool it would be if you could wear, like, a contact lens that, when you walked up and met somebody, would give you an "on-screen display" of that person's name. Apparently, my daydreams weren't big enough... | |
thats awesome | |
Everytime I find something interesting on the TED, I'm always ready to post in here and you guys beat me. Nice work, I still like the political conditioning one the best though. | |
That is amazing, just the thought of all the potential uses makes me dizzy! | |
That is without a doubt the single cheapest and awesome thing EVER! | |
The possible applications for something like this are just.....mind boggling. Not to mention freakin' cool. | |
That's amazing, but how are you gonna see it if it's day? | |
CHUCK! :) Well, that would be incredibly useful to identify people, who might be potential suspects and what's not, of course, if perfected to work in this domain. | |
Hell yes now I get to project porn onto people's chest! Wouldn't it be awkward if you meet someone and then naked pictures of them are projected onto their shirt in a hugely public place? You know naket pictures that person really never wanted us to see. | |
Reason to not have a Facebook #89. | |
Hahaha Seriously though, imagine how this could be used for gaming. The possibilities are amazing. | |
They need the version of this that fits into sunglasses (and without the external projection for normal use, though maybe it could be an option for some things). Then it'd be awesome. | |
That could be a potentially awesome device. It's one of the nerdiest fantasies of high technology ever imagined has come to life. Now we just have to see how much it costs... | |
When can i get one on my wrist? | |
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MIT Demos Wearable Sixth Sense at TED
The talk of the town for this year's TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference was a wearable gadget that gave its wearer a sort of sixth sense - instantaneous information.
If you've ever seen a video of a TED presentation before, you'll likely know that they can usually be two things: very cool, but often very, very dry and long. With that in mind, if you want to watch the beginning, by all means go ahead, but it doesn't get really interesting until the 2:30 mark. If you want to just see the absolute coolest part of the video, skip to 5:00 for the mind-blowing.
Here's the gist of it: a lab at MIT run by a woman named Pattie Maes and a team led by Pranav Mistry has developed technology to give people a sort of sixth sense - and we don't mean the "I see dead people" kind, either. In this age of widespread information, it's easy to say, go home and look someone you've just met up on Facebook to find out about them, or to research what the best product value is at the supermarket - but you can't really do that on the fly, even with internet access via cell phones.
So what the sixth sense does, is it combines a projector/mirror with a webcam, with all the Internet connection / processing handled by an average cell phone. Not only can you manipulate information with just your fingers on any surface whatsoever - even your hand - but the idea is to provide instantaneous and automatic information on the go.
Meet someone new, and a word cloud from their Facebook page will appear. Look at different brands of toilet paper to have it instantly tell you what the most eco-friendly brand is. Glance at your boarding pass while in the taxi to find out if your flight was delayed or not.
Sure, it might not be fashionable (and let's face it, but having someone notice a word cloud appearing on their chest would be pretty awkward) and it's still early on in development, but the potential here is mindblowing. Also, kinda scary.
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