The 'Next Level'
Pranav Mistry from MIT, probably a year back at TED announced a device called as the "Sixth Sense" which he described as a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around with digital information and lets one use the natural hand gestures to interact with that information. Quite a mouthful! Well, like every time Microsoft seems to have got inspired from that and has teamed up with brains from the Mellon University for "Skinput".
Check out this video.
But somewhere earlier there are chances that probably Pranav might have got inspired from Microsoft Surface. Looks like a 'chicken first or the egg' kind of exercise here.
Sometimes I feel that had it not been Apple we would have still seen a mouse-less world. Obviously it is not about who did it, its about who brought mouse into production and proclaimed it as an invention. Post Apple's invention of converting a pointing device concept into reality, the popularity/usability/acceptability of other such inputs has never been widely accepted but probably the first mouse was officially invented in the 1960! Since then have the most genuinely genius brains failed to think of the next level of pointing devices? Come to think of it, you still are making use of a mouse while reading this post and the best part is that its 2010! 40 less for a century. It was Apple again that showed the world a multi-touch screen possibility with their iPhones and now they have come out with iPads. Why are we so hopelessly dependent on pointing devices with hardware? In fact why can it not be neural? Same goes for display. Monitors have been the display units since quite some time. Why can't humansinnovate invent something more than a pointing device and a display unit for the next level? May be it can be a chip implanted in some part of the body that sends electric signals to the brain. Merely closing eyes would help in browsing Google for instance. Just like what they have shown in "The Matrix".
Following is a conversation from "The matrix"
Trinity and Neo have just killed a 1000 odd people and now they find this deserted chopper in front of them.
Neo: "Do you know how to fly this thing?"
Trinity: "Not yet"
Trinity pulls out her phone and calls up the operator.
Trinity: "Tank, I need a program to fly B190 helicopter"
Operator: "One moment!"
The operator goes through his collection, picks out a disk and slips it in a drive.
Trinity closes her eyes for a moment.... and they fly off with the chopper!
Would this be reality one day? Probably the world is waiting for "The one" person to crack this code? Well, I read it somewhere that the visually impaired people can have a chip implanted in their eyes to correct their vision.
Guess this is pretty much on the same lines... Has to be given a different perspective.
Check out this video.
But somewhere earlier there are chances that probably Pranav might have got inspired from Microsoft Surface. Looks like a 'chicken first or the egg' kind of exercise here.
Sometimes I feel that had it not been Apple we would have still seen a mouse-less world. Obviously it is not about who did it, its about who brought mouse into production and proclaimed it as an invention. Post Apple's invention of converting a pointing device concept into reality, the popularity/usability/acceptability of other such inputs has never been widely accepted but probably the first mouse was officially invented in the 1960! Since then have the most genuinely genius brains failed to think of the next level of pointing devices? Come to think of it, you still are making use of a mouse while reading this post and the best part is that its 2010! 40 less for a century. It was Apple again that showed the world a multi-touch screen possibility with their iPhones and now they have come out with iPads. Why are we so hopelessly dependent on pointing devices with hardware? In fact why can it not be neural? Same goes for display. Monitors have been the display units since quite some time. Why can't humans
Following is a conversation from "The matrix"
Trinity and Neo have just killed a 1000 odd people and now they find this deserted chopper in front of them.
Neo: "Do you know how to fly this thing?"
Trinity: "Not yet"
Trinity pulls out her phone and calls up the operator.
Trinity: "Tank, I need a program to fly B190 helicopter"
Operator: "One moment!"
The operator goes through his collection, picks out a disk and slips it in a drive.
Trinity closes her eyes for a moment.... and they fly off with the chopper!
Would this be reality one day? Probably the world is waiting for "The one" person to crack this code? Well, I read it somewhere that the visually impaired people can have a chip implanted in their eyes to correct their vision.
Guess this is pretty much on the same lines... Has to be given a different perspective.
