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/accep...