SIXTH SENSE Technology by Pranav Mistry

 Starting of new era in technology field

                                           Pic Courtesy: Pranavmistry.com

Hello Everyone... When we see Sci Fi movie like minority report, Iron Man etc then did not we think that what an awesome technologies they have shown in the movie..like the Tony Shark or IRON MAN in IRON MAN movie series handled/worked with the gadgets in his apartment and lab. the technologies shown in these movie is so impressive that most of us will say only one word.. Wowww ! How about if that movie technology you can use in your daily life at nominal price by using a small arrangement of devices which would cost say about only 350 dollar? Shocked ??? I was shocked too when i saw and read about this genius from MIT, America whose name is Mr Pranav Mistry. This guy has developed a technology by using 2-3 small devices and arrange them in such a manner that u can easily wear and use in daily life.
                                                                             
'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information" - (http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/)

This is the combination of projector, camera, and color markers. Just wear these three things as shown in pics and here you readt to interact with virtual world on your finger tips. just with the movement of your fingers tips you can get any information at any place at any time. Wanna see a pics captured by your camera but do not have a laptop or tablet so that you can show these pics to many person at a time.. no need to worry guys .. just use your device, any nearby wall and some magical hand movement and Wallahhh here is your all pics , video on the wall :-)  If you are in bookstore and want to know the critics opinion just place the book cover infront of the camera and you will get all the critics review and rating there on the cover of the book without going anywhere. 

If you see the presentation given by pranav on this technology you would say this guy has marked a very milestone in technology field. The usage of this device for various activities is endless. You can read a book on any surface, check your flight status on your boarding pass only, Want to play a car race game but donot have a tablet or PSP or smart phone..hhhmmm don't worry if possible take any piece of white paper and here you go you have your screen with you ..now enjoy the game, how? see the pics below :-) 

In short, with this technology whole world is your scribble pad, paint it with your thoughts.

This is some thing  which we have always dream about ..but this guy has converted it to the reality. Kudos and Thanks to the Mr Pranav for being so humble and donating this technology to the science and human.

Please check out the video shown below and his official website (http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/) to get detailed information on this amazing technology:

Next Gen iPhone

Conceptual phone by iPhone!

While searching for the new iPhone model i come to know about this concept phone by iPhone which i thought a good concept but difficult to use. It uses a projection technology to create a display for phone. You have to strap this iPhone to your wrist and project the screen into your plam, you will get the same display what you get on normal iPhone screen and after that you know how to use it. But i have not got any information for my query regarding the display size of projection area like is it fixed or will vary with the user's palm size? but still if it from iPhone we can trust on it and hope that i will create benchmark for the project technology in the phones.








Source: http://www.yankodesign.com/2010/10/07/talking-with-a-palm/

Pocket Light

It’s about the size of a credit card and powered by a small cell. Flip up the lightbulb shaped cut-out to switch on the soft, mellow, glow of bliss. What’s the point? Novel - next time you have a bright idea, you can have an actual lightbulb “bling!” on.

Designer: Hyun Jin Yoon & Eun Hak Lee

0-60 Seconds in 60 Seconds…

Albert Einstein once said “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.” Tell that to designer John Pszeniczny, he thinks time could use a turbo boost and has designed the fastest watch on Earth dubbed “F1/Carbon GMT”.

Inspired by the F1 race car world and constructed of carbon fiber, Swarovski crystal, rubber and metal, this timepiece has 18 identical rubies and tells the time in everyone of the 18 cities on the 2008 F1 circuit. With a built in lap timer function and a stopwatch, time will seem to stand still as it races by at relative speed…which is 42.

Designer: John Pszeniczny

Source: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/10/06/got-a-light & http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/04/24/0-60-seconds-in-60-seconds/

Vuzix Wrap 920AV Glasses

There's little doubt that as we inch closer to the technological singularity, video-enabled glasses will play a part. Unfortunately, manufacturers have yet to produce a pair that don't make you look like a complete idiot, and bionic eye camera implants still seem a ways off.






Luckily, the folks at Vuzix must have grown tired of all the Geordi La Forge jokes, as their latest pair of video glasses look astonishingly normal. While there's no guarantee that the Vuzix Wrap 920AV won't induce muffled laughter from everyone around you, they do promise to combine virtual reality capabilities and augmented reality features into one of the least obnoxious designs we've seen yet. The Wrap 920AV glasses will supposedly connect with almost any media player, and include built in headphones and individual focal adjustments.


Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10127213-1.html?tag=mncol;txt

A Future HAND Glove

Talk to the hand via 'HandTalk'

There may come a day when telling someone to "Talk to the hand" won't intimate you're turning a deaf ear to what the other person has to say.

Quite the contrary. Designers Bhargav Bhat, Hemant Sikaria and Priya Narasimhan have in hand a prototype gadget called HandTalk, which essentially is a phone for the hearing impaired. This wearable glove device detects the motions and gestures used in sign language, translates these into audio, then plays this back on a cell phone or mobile device.

Recently showcased at the Meeting Of The Minds expo at Carnegie Mellon University Center, the mobile software app can reportedly detect 32 words to date--a mere drop in the ocean of the hearing impaired's vocabulary.

But it's a start, and one the team hopes to expand by integrating pressure sensors and accelerometers to augment the flexor strips on the glove's digits. Hopefully, too, this turns out to be more than just vaporware, unlike a certain glove camera.

Source:http://crave.cnet.com

DEATH WATCH & ROCKET-COPTER

Timex concept is a literal death watch

Here's something we don't want:

the Timex 2154 life index watch. Years ago we came across a page called Deathforecast.com, which predicts how long you'll live depending on the answers to a couple dozen questions. That was morbid enough, but now there's something that does it one better by providing a constant physical reminder of one's mortality.Chances are, you’ve come across or heard of longevity calculators, but now instead of turning to sites like Deathforecast.com or crunching numbers according to longevity statistics.Timex is making it possible to wear your personal count down clock on your body in a form similar to nicotine patches.

The "Life Index Watch" is a concept developed for a Timex competition that keeps track of your remaining days based on personal biometrics. or that counts the minutes you have left to live.And just to make sure you don't miss one nerve-wracking second, it's meant to be "worn like a patch on the skin," according to ProductDose.

Basically, you put it on your skin, where it reads your biometric stats to determine how much longer you'll be alive. Pretty frightening, but even worse, it appears to be only available in purple.The digits displayed are based on your personal biometrics.

I’m not too sure why anyone would wear this, but it’s probably meant to raise awareness, no remind people that their lives are shortened by smoking cigarettes, consuming alcohol and living under stress, and that when they exercise and right, they can actually increase their lifespan.

Why anyone would want something like this is beyond us. Then again, maybe it's meant to remind us that life is short, so remember to enjoy the important things while we're here.

Source: http://www.crave.cnet.com/

Personal rocket-copter for your commute

With $4 gas prices looking like a permanent fact of life, consumer interest in jetpacks and other forms of personal air transport might soon go from whimsy to reality. That seems to be driving the engineers at Tecnologia Aeroespacial Mexicana, whose latest project is the "Libelula Rocket Helicopter."
Don't laugh. This may look like something from a '50s sci-fi movie, but its creators have already produced a "Rocket Belt" built to custom specifications. The personal chopper could be also be more reliable than its full-size counterparts because, Dvice says,

"by using tiny rocket motors at the tips of the rotor blades, the Libelula eliminates the torque which makes a tail rotor necessary in a conventional helicopter."

There are other potential advantages over the jetpacks we've seen, including price. We assume that the Libelula will be at least a tad cheaper than the Rocket Belt, which goes for $250,000--that's crazy money to pay for anything, let alone something that can fly for only 30 seconds at a time. Then again, the way prices at the pump are going, it might be worth another look.

Source: http://www.crave.cnet.com/

Strangest Gadgets of the Future

Solar Powered LED Light

The LightCap is basically a solar powered water bottle which has a built-in LED light in its lid. It features a waterproof solar panel, battery pack, and "will stay bright for hours while the rechargeable Ni-Cad batteries will last for at least 300 cycles" on a four hour charge -- in sunlight. This device measures 8 ¼" tall and 3 ¾" wide with a 32 oz capacity. No word yet on pricing and availability.

Source: http://www.yankodesign.com/ & www.techeblog.com

Intelligent Spoon

Connie Cheng and Leonardo Bonanni have developed the world's first "Intelligent Spoon". It's equipped with sensors to measure temperature, acidity, salinity, and viscosity. Download the recorded data to any computer via a cable for furthur processing.

This project aims to introduce computing into traditional culinary utensils. It seeks to provide information, in an integrated manner, about any food the spoon is in contact with, and to offer suggestions to improve the food. The spoon is equipped with sensors that measure temperature, acidity, salinity, and viscosity, and is connected to a computer via a cable. The sensors evaluate the different properties of the food, and send them to the computer for further processing.

" Apart from consolidating measurements that are normally done by an array of equipments into a single spoon,the information obtained can be used to advise the users what their next step should be,for example it tells the user if there is not enough salt in the brine prepared to make pickles "

source: http://www.media.mit.edu/ci/projects/intelligentspoon.html
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Citizen's Memory LCD

Citizen Japan has unveiled a new LCD technology -- called "memory liquid crystal" -- that retains the image even when turned off. Basically, its inorganic membrane and angled orientation keep the crystals frozen without needing power. Practical applications would include watches and mobile phone displays.

Used in conventional liquid-crystal orientation polyimide film instead, inorganic orientation film used for the orientation film and liquid crystal molecules with extreme angle of 20 degrees on the memory to achieve. In addition, the gap between conventional glass substrate of about 1 / 3 the following, could improve memory and low-voltage (5 V) is the driving.

Major Features

◆ It is also shown to cut the power is maintained by the memory of a function LCD display.

◆ picture writing except when they are not needed for power, as compared to conventional LCD about 1 / 50 (※ rewriting frequency of 1 / 10 sec for) the low power consumption.

◆ orientation film material is used as inorganic orientation film, film and the orientation of liquid crystal molecules and a 20-degree angle near the pole by setting a sufficient memory to ensure success.

◆ glass substrate of the LCD to the usual gap of about 1 / 3 or less narrowing of the memory of better results occur as expected.

◆ PASSHIBUMATORIKKUSU display system for Adoption, detailed images can be formed.

Uses

◆Electronic shelf tags and other types of meters and as part of the liquid crystal display

◆As mobile phone sub-LCD display Or e-books as part of electronic paper display

◆In addition, low-power consumption is required as part of any liquid crystal display

source: http://www.citizen.co.jp/release/06/060413me.html

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Origami DVD Player

This Origami DVD Player concept uses a fully-flexib

le display technology (e-paper) to ensure maximum portability. When not in use, the screen folds up neatly back into the case. From the image, it looks to sport integrated speakers as well. No word yet on if this concept will go into production.

"As a product, it would target the business traveler who wants a convenient way to watch DVD movies "

source: http://inventables.com & www.techeblog.com