I had heard a couple of days back through common friends who are alums of MIT that something big has got invented and a prototype for a product that is literally going to change our world is available at as low as 350 USD. Now imagine a world where everything around you can become a visual interface and you could interact with any information with gestures using your fingers that gets visible on even your palm or the surface you are looking at? Absurd and crazy but its true.
Using simple computer techniques and applications and codes along with mundane hardware which we use daily this dude by name Pranav Mistry has come out with what one would call “multi-touch and multi-user interaction device that makes the entire world your computer.”
How does this happen? This prototype has a pocket projector, a mirror, a camera, a mobile phone. The projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector then projects anything you see around, whether its a wall, stone, someone face or whatever for that matter and then the camera recognises the users hand gestures using some highly advanced computer vision based techniques post which the the software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the coloured markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers. WOW!!!!
Incidently it also can show directions on a map, so companies in the business of GPS Navigations will be out of business? I mean there could be millions who could go out of business but I guess this guy will be bought over like in a couple of months or something 
Also imagine reading a newspaper and you start seeing live video news or any related dynamic information you are reading? Or you do not have a wrist watch but you just draw one on your hand and the wrist watch gets visible to show you time 24/7? Man this is crazy and absurd but true.
So I know, watch companies, computer hard ware companies, navigation companies and I dont who else would be out of business, LOL.
But this is supreme stuff, check http://www.pranavmistry.com/projects/sixthsense/
BTW - I want to start streaming advts on these, Pranav, are you listening, I have a business model for you as ancillary revenue - LOL!!!
By Rammohan Sundaram @ 3:45 am