Sixth Sense creator to release code, wearable gesture interface becomes a reality for all
By Darren Murph 
posted November 7th 2009 10:12AM
posted November 7th 2009 10:12AM
If we're being honest (and trust us, we're being honest), Pranav Mistry's Sixth Sense contraption has always baffled us. It's kind of like Sony's Rolly. It looks cool, it sounds rad, but we're fairly certain only 2.49 people actually know and fully comprehend how it works. That said, we're more than jazzed about the possibility of having wearable gesture interfaces gracing every human we come into contact with, and rather than attempting to make his invention "comply with some kind of corporate policy," he's purportedly aiming to release the source code into the wild in order to let "people make their own systems." Nice guy, huh? All told, the Sixth Sense can be built for around $350 (plus oodles of unpaid time off), and we're 
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New Era cap not included!!
Now you can share your pr0n anywhere with anyone. This is exciting yet scary technology in the wrong hands. Either way the future must be embraced. If we thought like that we wouldn't invent anything!
I'm trying to decide if waving my hands in front of my face like someone with schizophrenia to control this mobile interface is worth losing all my friends...
Yeah, definitely.
If your friends don't think it's the coolest thing in the world, well... they're no friends of mine!
I say, we can go where we want to
A place where they will never find
And we can act like we come from out of this world
Leave the real one far behind
And we can dance!
He gave a talk at TED India the day before.. It will soon be hosted at http://www.ted.com/talks
Enjoy your downrank, troll.
But saturday is slow new day. And make stupid comments day.
I'm so tempted to register 'no-urnotrite.com'
I think I might be sensing some sarcasm...
I see Apple trying to buy this and doing some with it and all the fan-boys will bow to their knees and praise Steve for giving this without knowing he had nothing to do with this.
Well at least someone keeps his detectors in good shape.
Ok. Sarcasm detected. My mistake.
Was 'nournotrite.com' taken?
I bet the *AA's are slobbering at the thought of all the potential lawsuits for "Public Performances" of copyrighted works if people start to use this technology.
i see dead people............
My first impression when reading the headline M. Knight Shyamalan writes software when he's not writing/directing movies?
Is that the Guy for POPSCI's Future OF?
"...certain only 2.49 people " 2.49 people so 2 and a half of someone ?
yes
but how come?
Someone didn't put on their sense of humor this morning. Besides, it's *almost* two and a half people. Roughly, but not quite.
Darren, what were u thinking , comparing Sixth Sense with Rolly. This device may change the way in which we interact with the world where as the rolly is a "dancing" mp3 player.
Geez!!
Yes but the Rolly may change the way we interact with dancing mp3 players forever.
No, but punctuation is important and ICANN doesn't allow commas.
I didn't even know M. Night Shamalamadingdong was a programmer.
For the love of God, 99% of your posts have that stupid link, Anthony. Quit posting it.
But back on subject, Mega Corp X is such an awesome company name. Reminds me of Awesome X and the Xtacles
Yeah Minority Report + a dorky webcam hat. This will be cool if they can get past that part hehe.
@Dolphz:
HAHA!
Boosh and/or Kah-kow!
In case folks are interested, an SDK for this interface (not by Mistry though) is already available (just go to ACM digital library and go thru this year's UbiComp 2009 conference demos). The SDK which was demonstrated in UbiComp actually allows one to develop their own mobile applications on top of this gestural interface and run on a smartphone (Mistry's application OTOH only runs on a laptop - not cleverly seen in the videos but obvious when one sees it demonstrated live). So nothing new here....lets move on.
Fact: a majority of people refuse to use BT headsets, now link that to the likelihood that they are going to use a setup like this.
What do you think?
Enjoy your downrank, spammer!
He is releasing the code next month
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?page=article§id=7&contentid=2009110620091106023455906d0826ae5