Pranav Mistry is my New Hero

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:08 am

Someone linked me to this video {worksafe, audio, cool beans} on TED.

His SixthSense technology is totally awesome and it's actually some of the first new tech that I've looked at and thought, "Wow. I really want that." It's truly innovative, and exactly the kind of thing that I've been wishing I had access to.

If he actually makes it open source, I'd build a device for it. OMG, hell yes.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:14 am

the sad thing is that for this to really get off the ground, one of his best bets would be working with the military and/or porn industries.

My friend linked me to that stuff a bit ago, it's great.

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 4:29 am

gee, it's Vigne's Enhanced Reality and Wearables from Rainbow's End - which was in itself just a more plausible version of Gibson's Cyberspace.

Nice to see that working prototypes are now only a few years behind sci-fi.

Draco_Argentum · Post by **Draco_Argentum** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:08 am

Thats frigging awesome. And he wants to go open source, even more badass. Those projector contacts and this stuff would be cyberpunk without the dystopia.

Prak, I vote porno, we've got enough ways to kill each other already.

shadzar · Post by **shadzar** » Wed Nov 25, 2009 11:51 am

Seen that back a the beginning of the year.

I think a speed isue was being discussed for quicker pickup form the camera for something that would give a voice to def people a well. It should read their signs, and translate to spoken word so they could better communicate with the rest of the world, if only in a computer generated voice.

The whole thing reminded me of Johnny Mnemonic.