MIT学生天才发明:神奇的第六感科技

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SixthSense is a wearable, gestural interface that augments our physical world with digital information, and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. "Other than letting some of you live out your fantasy of looking as cool as Tom Cruise in ‘Minority Report' it can really let you connect as a sixth sense device with whatever is in front of you," said MIT researcher Patty Maes.

The SixthSense prototype comprises a pocket projector, mirror, and camera worn in a pendant-like mobile device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to a mobile computing device in the user's pocket. The system projects information onto the surfaces and physical objects around us, making any surface into a digital interface; the camera recognizes and tracks both the user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision-based techniques. SixthSense uses simple computer-vision techniques to process the video-stream data captured by the camera and follows the locations of colored markers on the user's fingertips (which are used for visual tracking). In addition, the software interprets the data into gestures to use for interacting with the projected application interfaces."You can turn any surface around you into an interactive surface," says Pranav Mistry, an MIT graduate student working on the SixthSense project. "Let's say I'm in a bookstore, and I'm holding a book. SixthSense will recognize that, and will go up to Amazon. Then, it will display online reviews of that book, and prices, right on the cover of the book I'm holding."

Some other examples:

* When you want to check the time, you draw a circle on your wrist; the projector displays a clock right on your arm.

* You hold up your left hand, fingers pointing to the right. The system recognizes that you want to make a call, and projects a dialing pad onto your fingers. You tap the virtual keypad with your right hand to dial the call.

* You hold up your left hand, fingers pointing to the right. The system recognizes that you want to make a call, and projects a dialing pad onto your fingers. You tap the virtual keypad with your right hand to dial the call.

* You hold your fingers out at arm's length forming a square. The system snaps a photo of what's enclosed by your fingers. Later, you can sort, resize and fiddle with these photos by projecting them onto any wall and dragging their images with your fingertips.

* You run into a guy at a party. The system projects his name and keywords onto his T-shirt, so you can remember who he was and start a conversation.

The current SixthSense prototype supports several types of gesture-based interactions, demonstrating the usefulness, viability, and flexibility of the system. The current prototype system costs approximately $350 to build. http://www.hxen.net

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从美国MIT Media Lab（麻省理工学院媒体实验室）天才学生普拉纳夫的惊人发明中你可以看到一种新的创新如何把数码世界和现实世界联系起来，这个惊人的发明相信可以完全改变我们现在的世界。

他从最开始用两个鼠标，就能够创造出类似关键报告的动态捕捉，到后来延伸出越来越多直觉式的互动处理，一次又一次的让我们感到惊奇。比个手势就能够拍照，看书看报纸有多出来的语音功能，随时读取的即时消息，实在是很方便。

他的想法不只是创新，而且已经作为成品了，那之后这个世界会变成什么样子呢?所有在装置内的信息可以以更直接的方式与人类互动，信息的传递会更加快速。随处可取的信息，以及随时可应用的装置，还有无数应运而生的产业，怎样抓住趋势会是成功的契机。

估计这个发明实用以后受到冲击的不仅是面板产业还有电子书、笔记本、上网本等等。它的硬件成本只有300美元，如果大量流行可能会毁掉我们现在世界中的很多电子产品。