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Sixth Sense of the Technology
In this tactile world, we use our five senses to take the information about our environment and respond to it. But a lot of the information that helps us to understand and respond to the world doesn’t come from these senses. Instead, it comes from computers and the internet. But it is very difficult to take the computer to every where. We wanted to make information more useful to people in real time with minimal effort in a way that doesn’t require any behavior changes. So, the TED technology was introduced.
TED, the name indicates Technology, Entertainment, and Design was born in 1984 out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman, Richard Branson and Chris Anderson of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design.
To bring this thought into practical, the wristband was getting close, but you still had to take out your cell phone to look at the information. They implemented the project with a larger projector that was mounted on a helmet. But that proved cumbersome if someone was projecting data onto a wall then turned to speak to friend — the data would project on the friend’s face. At last, they switched to a smaller projector and created the pendant prototype to be worn around the neck.
Using off-the-shelf hardware that consists of a small video projector, camera and sensors, they built "Wear Ur World" (the 6th Sense).
The prototype was built from an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, with an attached mirror — all connected to an internet-enabled mobile phone that allows the user to project information from the phone onto any surface — walls, the body of another person or even your hand.
The device on a lanyard around his neck, and colored Magic Marker caps on four fingers (red, blue, green and yellow) helped the camera distinguish the four fingers and recognize his hand gestures with software created.
The device projects the mindset of the person. If he wants to draw a circle in his imagination, then he can simply stand before any surface and draw a circle with his finger in air. We can get the information about the thing which is in our hand.
If he reading an article in the news paper, then if he wants to watch the video about that news, he can think of it and project the video on the paper without any physical actions. All this information was through the internet. It projects the information that would be present in the internet.
The gestures can be as simple as using his fingers and thumbs to create a picture frame that tells the camera to snap a photo, which is saved to his mobile phone. When he gets back to an office, he projects the images onto a wall and begins to size them.
When we meet a person, the system projects a cloud of words on the person’s body to provide more information about him — his blog URL, the name of his company, his likes and interests.
“This is a more controversial feature”
In another frame, pick up a boarding pass while we sitting in a car. It projects the current status of our flight and gate number retrieved from the flight-status page of the airline onto the card.
If you need to know what time it is, it’s as simple as drawing a watch on your arm, just draw a circle on left wrist with right finger. When a person folds his hands in "Namaste" fashion, the system opens a menu to allow him to choose an application. If he wants to read e-mail on his phone, he draws an @ symbol in the air with his finger. He can project a phone pad onto his palm and dial a number without removing the phone from his pocket. As he reads the newspaper on the subway he can project a video onto the page that provides more information about the topic he’s reading.
NagaPavanKumar.k
R.S.Rajesh
Sixth Sense of the Technology fulllll.doc (Size: 212 KB / Downloads: 113)
Sixth Sense of the Technology
In this tactile world, we use our five senses to take the information about our environment and respond to it. But a lot of the information that helps us to understand and respond to the world doesn’t come from these senses. Instead, it comes from computers and the internet. But it is very difficult to take the computer to every where. We wanted to make information more useful to people in real time with minimal effort in a way that doesn’t require any behavior changes. So, the TED technology was introduced.
TED, the name indicates Technology, Entertainment, and Design was born in 1984 out of the observation by Richard Saul Wurman, Richard Branson and Chris Anderson of a powerful convergence between Technology, Entertainment and Design.
To bring this thought into practical, the wristband was getting close, but you still had to take out your cell phone to look at the information. They implemented the project with a larger projector that was mounted on a helmet. But that proved cumbersome if someone was projecting data onto a wall then turned to speak to friend — the data would project on the friend’s face. At last, they switched to a smaller projector and created the pendant prototype to be worn around the neck.
Using off-the-shelf hardware that consists of a small video projector, camera and sensors, they built "Wear Ur World" (the 6th Sense).
The prototype was built from an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, with an attached mirror — all connected to an internet-enabled mobile phone that allows the user to project information from the phone onto any surface — walls, the body of another person or even your hand.
The device on a lanyard around his neck, and colored Magic Marker caps on four fingers (red, blue, green and yellow) helped the camera distinguish the four fingers and recognize his hand gestures with software created.
The device projects the mindset of the person. If he wants to draw a circle in his imagination, then he can simply stand before any surface and draw a circle with his finger in air. We can get the information about the thing which is in our hand.
If he reading an article in the news paper, then if he wants to watch the video about that news, he can think of it and project the video on the paper without any physical actions. All this information was through the internet. It projects the information that would be present in the internet.
The gestures can be as simple as using his fingers and thumbs to create a picture frame that tells the camera to snap a photo, which is saved to his mobile phone. When he gets back to an office, he projects the images onto a wall and begins to size them.
When we meet a person, the system projects a cloud of words on the person’s body to provide more information about him — his blog URL, the name of his company, his likes and interests.
“This is a more controversial feature”
In another frame, pick up a boarding pass while we sitting in a car. It projects the current status of our flight and gate number retrieved from the flight-status page of the airline onto the card.
If you need to know what time it is, it’s as simple as drawing a watch on your arm, just draw a circle on left wrist with right finger. When a person folds his hands in "Namaste" fashion, the system opens a menu to allow him to choose an application. If he wants to read e-mail on his phone, he draws an @ symbol in the air with his finger. He can project a phone pad onto his palm and dial a number without removing the phone from his pocket. As he reads the newspaper on the subway he can project a video onto the page that provides more information about the topic he’s reading.