MIT concocts wearable "sixth sense" device, Bruce Willis is like "what?"
By Darren Murph 
posted Feb 5th 2009 1:32PM
posted Feb 5th 2009 1:32PM
We've nothing but respect for the researchers, engineers and all around brainacs that call MIT home, but unless our minds are simply too feeble to grasp the connection here, we can't figure how this "sixth sense" device actually relates to one of Bruce Willis' most well known films. At any rate, what we do have here is a wearable device that is comprised of a mobile projector, a webcam and a cellphone -- a package that was thrown together for around $300. Once strapped on, signals from the webcam and projector are relayed to internet-connected smartphones in order to project data onto basically any backdrop. Somehow, the device 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 actual hows and whys seem to be a mystery, but if we had just developed a gizmo as ripe for commercialization as this, we'd probably keep most of the secrets under wraps as well.[Via Blorge]
I see stupid commenters.
They don't know they're stupid!
+1 for agreement.
To butcher Socrates, "I'm stupid, and I know I'm stupid. The fellow next to me is stupid, but he thinks he's brilliant, so that makes me smarter than him!"
These kind of articles always work better with a video...
It's a bit like the old HP ads: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOnif6BC0kc
I loved those ads.
Same as Mike!
I can levitate using mind power, trust me. I don't have any videos but I assure you, I can do it.
Mean while in some other room @ TED, Bill Gates unleashes mosquito swarm on the audience.
http://valleywag.gawker.com/5146508/bill-gates-unleashes-mosquito-swarm
well... get a camcorder, record yourself and post it on youtube. Nowadays its not a hard task to prove you can do such things...that is, if you really can :)
Hmm, wouldn't it be easier to just wear a watch?
This just looks like the gestures thing but bigger.....
I wish I was a brainac...
I wish I was a brain.
I wish I had a brain.
Let me give you an example of how we can use this "6th sense".
http://www.creativesynthesis.net/blog/2007/12/18/xray-vision/
yeeeeah.
I love that powerful technology is cheap enough that things like this are possible.
Would that title be a reference to Kung Fu Panda?