6. December 2009 by amal.

Pranav Mistry (PhD student of Indian origin in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab) recently shares few of his innovations, which can connect digital world to the real world objects. During his recent he shared his phenomenal vision of “Sixth Sense”; where physical objects (for instance camera, hand movements, human motions etc) can be felt, sensed directly/feed into computer. ” SixthSense” is a wearable gesture interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information.His past projects include (not limited to):

- “Quickies” is an intelligent physical sticky-note which can be digitally stored and can be searched as well

- “TaPuMa” a digital, tangible public map that allows people to use their own objects to display pertinent information on the map

- “Third Eye” - multiple viewer viewing different things on a single screen

- “inktutive” Pen & paper workspace project which can be directly feed into computer

Pranav is planning to launch his API’s as open-source project, which can be used directly or extended to connect real world with digital world. Personally I see his projects as break-through defining project, which is going to define/build new paradigm.  Hat’s off to Pranav. Simply amazing! His website is www.pranavmistry.com

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16. February 2009 by amal.

Beautiful documentary on history & advent of Internet. This covers details of Internet evolution, need, the journey and collobaration among military (ARPANET, RAND - US), commercial (NPL - UK),  scientific (CYCLADES - France) to come out with network of networks - Internet. Intersting watch.

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4. November 2008 by amal.

Technology always created new avenues, facilities, comfort level for human being and is consistently evolved to achieve new break-through. Not only these aspects, it created new niche market & consumer segments leading to new financial models. Classical example of recent past are mobile, pen drives, digital camera, GPS, remote control, iPod, internet and many more. All these innovative products created huge demand & fulfillment model as well. More-over there is tremenodus consicous R&D effort for evolving technology.

Think about  an integrated chip which infinite memory with non-volatile functionality; USB drive with tremendous responsiveness to replace DVD drive; wireless power transmission; gesture based remote control; open wireless networks; touch monitor embedded on furnitures, walls.  Do read detailed article about undergoing path-breaking innovations at following link  As long as technology remains facilitator, it shall open tremendous opportunity both economically & for humankind as well. Some times technology is intruder. At end of the day, choice is still with us.

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