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Demo of a New "Sixth Sense" Technology

Posted by kdawson on from the i-see-live-data dept.

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."

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  1. Sixth Sense by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

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

    Warning: the preceding was a spoiler.

    1. Re:Sixth Sense by PCM2 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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    2. Re:Sixth Sense by PPH · · Score: 2, Funny

      I thought Willis' career was mortally wounded by Hudson Hawk.

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    3. Re:Sixth Sense by fractoid · · Score: 2, Funny

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

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  2. One possible application by Locke2005 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now you really CAN see dead people!

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  3. spidy sense! by jollyreaper · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.

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  4. I already have more than five senses by holophrastic · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:I already have more than five senses by tsm_sf · · Score: 3, Funny

      Should I get off your lawn?

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    2. Re:I already have more than five senses by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      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

    3. Re:I already have more than five senses by Tryle · · Score: 2, Funny

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

    4. Re:I already have more than five senses by Curtman · · Score: 2, Funny

      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.

  5. You would think that by One+Brave+Prune · · Score: 2, Funny

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

  6. What could possibly go wrong? by Locke2005 · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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