geek tech: the sixth sense
Was watching this insane video from TED where Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Lab show how one can become a gargoyle from Neal Stephenson’s ‘Snow Crash’: wearable tech that is the aware of the user’s environment - for instance projecting amazon’s rating of a book one is thinking of purchasing, or projecting a watch onto a wrist initiated by a simple hand gesture. Imagine walking up to someone and seeing their interests projected on their chest, or taking a picture by just framing the area you want a shot of. Though right now it’s quite klunky and cobbled together, the cost of the off the shelf devices only total $350. It’ll be interesting to see where this might go…
Garry Schafer is ScribeMedia's Director of Interactive Media. His weapons of choice are many fold, but he's quite partial to Flex as he builds out live and on-demand media players and a host of other apps. His personal site is grimmwerks.
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