Thursday, May 21st, 2009
Pattie presented MIT’s new 6th sense device at TED and received a standing ovation. What!!!!
Remember MIT’s wearable computers? All a bit silly and unreaslistic. Now Pattie’s group have developed a combined, camera, projector phone device that engages with the user and supplements his or her knowledge. And because it includes a projector, you can use any surface. Your wrist becomes a watch, your hand a calculator and if you want more information on a book, then the blank page becomes a screen. See for yourself on this YouTube video. It is remarkable.
The 6th Sense device was a winner in the amateur inventers competition run by Popular Science Magazine. Fast Company covers all ten winners and they are all interesting.