MIT Students Develop Wearable Computer
By stormy at 10 February, 2009, 6:25 pm
Students of the MIT have invented something that we can surely take as a glimpse of the future of computing - a wearable computer that uses any nearby surface as an interactive display.
The device consists of a mobile phone, a webcam, a projector with an attached mirror and colored finger caps. All together, it costs less than $350.
Although the contraption, named “sixth sense” makes you look pretty dorky, it could be a lot worse…
The device works by recognizing your hand gestures using the webcam, and projecting a display onto any surface needed.
For exaple:
- “Drawing” a circle on your wrist - displays a clock
- Waving an @ symbol - opens the email app
- Party mode - recognizes peoples faces and projects their info on their body (blog url, occupation, intrests, etc.)
- Recognizes an airplane ticket and displays and displays info about the flight
The following videos show you how it’s used. (Not sure whether the MIT backpack is part of the device):
These types of computers could potentially come to the market from 2010, but until everything fits into a slim, mobile-sized device that hangs from your neck, I ain’t gonna buy it.
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