Actually, I’ve got to rename this post.
This week, it’s only going to be one idea. The only thing to show this week is that the future is here.
Pranav Mistry is an inventor. Or an engineer. Or a User Experience designer. It’s hard to say: the bio on his website starts off, “Nothing can be and can not be one and at the same time and I am, I am Pranav Mistry.”
I don’t know what the hell that means. But I kind of feel that way every time Pranav opens his mouth. The things he talks about are brilliant in a way I don’t think I’ve ever been exposed to before. It’s like he just plucks his dreams out of the air, and then builds them for everyone to share.
His latest invention is called SixthSense. I don’t know if I can describe it any better than this: Science fiction is now science fact.
What I mean is, now, everything is “interactive”. If you look at a wall, you can send email from it. Or leave a message on it, digitally. Or take a picture of it with your fingers. Really. This exists.
It’s a combination of a camera, a projector, and computer operating system that a user wears around their neck. The camera track hand movements on the interface, which is projected onto, well, anything. That means that not only can you see your computer screen anywhere, but everything becomes a computer screen.
Think about that for a second. A piece of paper. A basketball. A hairbrush. Computers.
In a sense they’re just objects, still and yet. Until you see how a piece of
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