Touch the virtual

By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones allow easy access computing power, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to go one step further by turning the entire world into a computer.At this year’s Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Boston, the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab unveiled the latest prototype of SixthSense, a wearable, gesture-driven computing platform that can continually augment the physical world with digital infor

By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones

By Clark BoydThe World, WGBH BostonLaptops and smartphones allow easy access computing power, but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology want to go one step further by turning the entire world into a computer.At this year’s Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Boston, the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab unveiled the latest prototype of SixthSense, a wearable, gesture-driven computing platform that can continually augment the physical world with digital infor

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry Unveil “Sixth Sense” Technology at TED

On February 4, Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry of MIT’s Fluid Interfaces Group were the talk of TED2009 when Pattie demo’d their Sixth Sense technology. The technology was developed on hardware available today. The total hardware cost was around $350. The system gives the user fast access to a wealth of information. It is amazing to think of the direction some of the technology is going, but there are also some worrisome privacy aspects that the commenters brought out on TED’s posting