‘SixthSense’ Technology Offers a New Way to Learn
Pattie Maes, an associate professor and Pranav Mistry, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab, have teamed up to almost bring us the ‘SixthSense’ technology.
While they claim that ‘SixthSense’ is about 10 years away or so from being marketed to the public and that so far the cost to build one is only around $350, the technology is far enough along that it was unveiled on February 2009.
What is ‘SixSense’? It’s a way to bring digital information out into the physical world so you can literally make the entire world your personal computer. It’s best explained and demonstrated by this research team in the video below.
While this technology poses a great potential for abuse and some laws may have to be written as to it’s use, I can also see the potential for learning. Imagine a teacher or student doing research, being able to quickly pull up a globe of the world and instantly pull up any relevant information on any topic and then interweave it with video, pictures, newspaper articles etc. as they teach or research a topic.
Remember the gathering of the jet fighters in Star Wars to view the schematics of the Death Star? This is approaching that same technology and will probably ultimately be integrated with the pen that draws in 3-D technology they are also developing. With the popularity of GPS’, the mapping portion alone has endless possibilities.
‘SixthSense’ has great potential for many areas of life and may be the next cell phone but I’m still reminded that greater value to the mind and soul can be found by simply reconnecting with our creator through the wonder and beauty that is nature.
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