Every

footstep we pRepaRed bY
made ~ dEvI~
it has
something to
do in our life

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*we use our five natural senses to

perceive information about it; but
arguably the most useful information
that can help us make the right decision
is not naturally perceivable with our five
senses
*bringing intangible, digital information
out into the tangible world, and allowing
us to interact with this information via
natural hand gestures.
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SIXTH SENSE
DEVICE
The device is combination of a
wearable camera, a projector and a
mirror where the camera recognizes
movements of the fingers of your hand
and translates those into commands.
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The basics…
 prototype is comprised of a pocket projector,
 a mirror and a camera
 hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile
wearable device
 connected to the mobile computing device in your pocket
 fiducially are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction
instructions for the projected application interfaces.
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Co
m
po
n en
ts
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SIXTHSENSE
PROTYPE
map application let you navigate a map displayed on a
nearby surface using hand gestures
augments physical objects that you interact with by
projecting more information about these objects projected
on them
a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic
information can be provided on a regular piece of paper
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$350 dollars
The interesting thing here is that Sixth Sense
can never really be more expensive than its
individual components .
Another interesting thing is the inventor of
sixthsense, Mr. Pranav Mistry has declared to
make it open source.
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Here is the video

about this
application
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Awards and Achievements

.Winner of ‘TR35 2009’ award, Technology Review.

 .Winner of ‘INVENTION OF THE YEAR 2009’ award, Popular

Science.

 .Winner of ‘Young Indian Innovator 2009’ award, Digit

Magazine.

 .Speaker for TED 2009 talk on ‘sixthsense’, TED 2009, Long

Beach, CA.

 .2nd in SPACE competition in SIGGRAPH2004.

 1st in Innovation Fair at India level, for project MARBO.

.All India 3rd in Open Hardware Contest in Techfest @ IIT Bombay 13
for    DATAG2.02.
 .3rd in Model Presentation at INGENIUM 2002.

 .3rd in Creative art competition organized by ISRO.

 .1st in Design competition organized by IEEE, India chapter.

 .2nd in website designing organized by ACES.

 .Selected for the Dirubhai Ambani Foundation Award for securing

the 1st    rank in district.
 .2nd in on the spot Model Making contest in Techfest @ IIT
Bombay.
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PUBLICATIONS

P. Mistry, P. Maes. SixthSense – A Wearable Gestural

Interface. To be appeared in SIGGRAPH Asia 2009,
Sketch. Yokohama, Japan. 2009
P. Mistry, P. Maes. SixthSense – A Wearable Gestural
Interface. To be appeared in SIGGRAPH Asia 2009,
Emerging Technologies. Yokohama, Japan. 2009
P. Mistry. The thrilling potential of SixthSense
technology. TED India 2009. Mysore, India 2009
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Sense
  FOX News   MIT Team Shows 'Sixth Sense' Wearable Computer
  BBC   SixthSense blurs digital and the real
  The Sydney Morning Herald   MIT researchers make 'sixth
sense' gadget
  The Inquirer   MIT makes sixth sense gadget
  Mumbai Mirror   Wear your world
  THE TIMES OF INDIA   'Sixth sense' gizmo makes sci-fi a
reality
   redOrbit   MIT Develops Device That Offers 'Sixth Sense'
 Gizmodo   Sixth Sense Technology May Change How We Look at 16
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  Fast Company   MIT's Sixth Sense Machine Makes Reality
Better
  Slashdot   MIT Researchers Create a Cheap "6th Sense" Device

  engadget   MIT's "sixth sense" augmented reality device

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  engadget   MIT concocts wearable "sixth sense" device, Bruce
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  World Changing   Pattie Maes Invents a Sixth Sense
 SOFTPEDIA   Next-Gen 'Sixth Sense' Device Created at MIT
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  Gearlog   The Internet as an Extension of Self

  DVICE.com   Minority Report-like wearable interface gives you

a sixth sense
  MAXIMUMPC   TED 2009: The Sixth Sense is Actually a
Minority Report-like Internet Interface
 sina.com   美推出可穿戴电脑将网络变成人类第六感

  io9.com   MIT Student Turns His Body Into a Computer

  Wired Vision   身体と世界と情報を統合：情報をどこにでも投影

するウェアラブル・マシン：動画
AFP   MIT researchers make 'sixth sense' gadget
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  TMC   MIT Researchers Unveil Computing Device that Turns
Any Surface into a Touchscreen
  betanews   MIT develops an even more augmented reality device

  GEEK.com   MIT develop Wear Ur World, 6th sense hand

gesture gadget
  GIGAOM   MIT develop Wear Ur World, 6th sense hand gesture
gadget
  Crunch Gear   Video: That MIT “sixth sense” device in action

  GottaBeMobile.com   MIT Student Doing Amazing “Sixth

Sense” Work