In the wake of Wired’s stunning exploration of how the Internet is really grounded in the physical realm, TEDIndia’s Pranav Mistry demoed his SixthSense device, which allows the physical and data worlds to interact with each other.
Watch the actual demo of SixthSense at around the 6 minute mark in the video – you can use any surface as your interface, and even do the snapshot gesture outside and actually take a picture. Check out the video, seriously no words can do justice to how FREAKING COOL this is.
I love the gestures in Apple’s iPhone, iPod Touch, and MacBook trackpads – because they’re intuitive, not just pre-set shortcuts. And that’s the key that Mistry and Jobs both see – the future of computing is that intuitiveness: making things easy to use without sacrificing power.
Mistry makes another excellent point: most people aren’t interested in computing, but in information. Even most geeks ironically love our gadgets more when we barely notice them at all.
via Om Malik
