http://www.ted.com/talks/pattie_maes_demos_the_sixth_sense.html

Watch all of it, though I probably don't need to tell you that... after probably 1 minute of it you'll start to salivate.

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summarize me?

Basically you wear a projector / camera (in one) around your neck, you wear four colors on your pointer and index fingers (of both hands, green, yellow, red and blue). They can be anything from nail polish, to marker caps to whatever, as long as they are distinct colors that the camera can pick up. Now, the projector projects on any wall / object -- anything and you can type, dial, draw etc...

The more amazing part comes in with the advanced camera use, you can go to the super market, analyze different types of towel brands for example, or go to the book store, pick up a book and it'll project an amazon rating of it -- if you flip through the book, certain pictures will come up with annotations by acclaimed critics or things like that.

lol holy fuck. if everyone walked around with that shit imo that would be the 1st of many technological landmarks towards makin america look like some futuristic movie. like mission impossible or smthn.

sweet

Eh, not really feelin the projector bit.
They should built them into glasses form where the picture just shows up for you.
Now that would impress me.

haha nice

That's pretty sweet, basically a merger of all the technologies that have been developed up to this point. The projector would take some getting used to though.

in addition, this would likely save power. projectors need to be very bright, and use a lot of power.

the military has been developing the "video in goggles" technology and its already here anyways.

I mean you can't say you're not impressed just because of the projector. What hes done is already so amazing in itself, the programming that goes into this is absolutely ridiculous -- and while I agree that the projector might not be the best choice, this technology is only yet in its infant stages. This is so new, and btw, glasses means one would be forced to wear special glasses... perhaps on top of their own, for now IMO the projector is the best choice.