You’ll know that the world of interaction design has reached mainstream if a banker sends you a link asking you to look a this cool new technology in a video he saw on TED… and he saw it before you did!  That’s what happened to me, my uncle, a businessman and banker sent our family egroup a link pointing to “Sixth Sense” presentation on TED.

Pattie Maes of MIT Media Lab Fluid interfaces presented a demo of their Sixth Sense project at TED recently.  The project is about bringing more information about anything at your fingertips, literary.  

‘SixthSense’ is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.

Pranav Mistry, who is spearheding this project, is shown during the demo with a camera/projector necklace which captures images that your fingers point to then projects more information about that image.  For example, when you are at a grocery, while deciding which product to buy, you hold up that detergent then your necklace gets information from the web and projects it into the box.  Now you know if the detergent is really as environment friendly as they say it is.  Although it is slightly clunky (you wouldn’t catch me wearing colored rings at the ends of my fingetips) the concept is very solid and very likely to succeed.  I hope to see this in the market in a couple of years.

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