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."

Comments

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.

Re:Sixth Sense

[PCM2]

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

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.

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 people you don't like you could create by hacking into this device while somebody else is wearing it!