In February, Pattie Maes demonstrated some new technology at the latest Technology,Education, and Design conference. Pattie talked about the idea of having a sixth sense and what it would be like. Her idea of a sixth sense is being provided with information or data seamlessly. In an example of this, Pattie and her student made a prototype that would make these things possible using off the shelf materials such as a webcam, a projector, a mirror, and a cell phone.
This device is connected to the information stored on the web, and can recognize hand gestures. This device can recognize all of your surroundings and with this you can determine the best deals on goods, call people, tell time, take photos, look up people, and read your plane times all seamlessly.
This technology is an example of augmented reality which is the combination of the real world and computer generated data. The idea is that with the progression of this technology will eventually lead to a brain implant. The area of impact would be, while it would affect many, arts, entertainment, and leisure. This would have some social and ethical issues including people and machines. This would affect this as this technology will affect the way that people interact with their surroundings forever which includes the way they interact with other technology. The main stakeholder would be society as this will affect the way that people do things.
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4 Responses
drtech
March 26th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
1The only problem might be with this article that it is too in the future – what are the problems now?
odo
March 26th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
2Sixth sense technology is a good example of People & Machines :P.
Some (like myself) disagree with implanting bionic features into oneself, whereas some are enthusiastic towards the concept.
shakeandbake
March 27th, 2009 at 9:43 am
3Have you considered the security issues of such a device? While I know this is only a prototype, a device around your neck could be quite easy to steal.
What if we’re projecting pictures on a wall, and one we wish we had never taken pops up in a public place.
The idea of this device is extremely cool, but there could be some real issues with Privacy & Anonymity as well as Security.
drtech
March 27th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
4Surely something around your neck is no more insecure than a mobile on your pocket or a ipod? I believe the prototype would be much larger than the actual device itself….
BTW – the main stakeholder cannot be the SOCIETY – that is a little too general I believe?
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