Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology

TEDChris writes "Here's an intriguing attempt at a versatile new tech device that tries to augment the wearer's five senses. It comes out of Patty Maes's group at the MIT Media Lab. By combining a computerized personal projector with a camera and linking both to the Net, a host of surprising new applications becomes possible. This 8-minute demo created a lot of buzz at TED last month and was posted online today. Would love to know what the Slashdot community makes of it."

Sixth Sense

[Anonymous Coward]

Turns out that the character played by Bruce Willis was shot dead at the beginning of the movie.

Warning: the preceding was a spoiler.

One possible application

[Locke2005]

Now you really CAN see dead people!

spidy sense!

[jollyreaper]

Now all we need are web casters, ultra-sticky material for the hands and feet, and someone to beat Tobby MacGuire with a bar of soap in a sock if he comes anywhere near it.

I already have more than five senses

[holophrastic]

I, as a typical human, have plenty more than five senses. I would have hoped that people's understanding of their own body would have continued past grade-school.

But in any event, I welcome yet another sense beyond my current twenty-something.

You would think that

[One Brave Prune]

with all that technology the girl at the end would have a calculator watch.

Re:Sixth Sense

[PCM2]

Dr. Manhattan killed Rosebud? That was Charles Foster Kane's favorite sled!!

Re:Sixth Sense

[PPH]

I thought Willis' career was mortally wounded by Hudson Hawk [imdb.com].

Re:I already have more than five senses

[tsm_sf]

Should I get off your lawn?

What could possibly go wrong?

[Locke2005]

Imagine all the great opportunities for gaslighting [wikipedia.org] people you don't like you could create by hacking into this device while somebody else is wearing it!

Re:I already have more than five senses

[Anonymous Coward]

1. Sight
2. smell
3. touch
4. taste
5. hearing

Care to name your other twenty something senses?

PS: there should be no hyphen between "grade" and "school". Dodn't you learn that in grade school?

Nope I dodn't learn that in grade school

Re:I already have more than five senses

[Tryle]

I've seen his mom, I would not be watching the demo. Your logic is flawed.

Re:I already have more than five senses

[Curtman]

All this thing does is look up information on something presented to it. The iPhone can be used to look up the same information, with the only disadvantage being that you have to manually search for it.

Yeah the iPhone recognizes whatever object/person you put in front of it and displays information about it directly on it. I must have missed that one in the app store.

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Re:Sixth Sense

[fractoid]

Wait, that guy in that movie I had to watch for English class... he made beer?