6th Sense - Personal Device delivering data about people you talk to

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This is what is in store for the future.

A device like a phone that can deliver data about every item or person you see or meet.

It's like being a Terminator.

Watch the video.

It's pretty impressive and scary at the same time

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

OldGoat

Mrs. Goat can sum up a person with one scathing glance. Frightingly accurate too.

Overheal

So you can be looking at porn and people will only see you reading hamlet. Awesome.

Schism

That looks fantastic. Of course it's a bit unwieldly at the moment but when they manage to make it smaller and more streamlined it could be huge.

Sharpshooter

WOW that is interesting stuff there.
Being able to see videos relating to articles you are reading in the newspaper is brilliant.
Draw the shape of a watch on your wrist and seeing the time appear.

Being able to scan people and see their info appear on their clothes including their blog is awesome.
But she didn't explain what would happen if people didn't want you to use it on them.

The scarey part is she figures that in 10 years time they might have a chip to implant in the brain that can do all the things this gadget can do now.

/she even talks like the terminator.

My name is URL

When did the classic idea of building robots to make our lives easier become turning ourselves into robots?

Nice tech for sure, but definitely a bit scary too

el_tiddlero

that thing is totally awesome.. i want one..

Super-Rush

He dies at the end

The Master

Could they not develop a "Sense 6th" device?

So we can keep track of him at all times

Earthhorse

Sharpshooter wrote: »

Draw the shape of a watch on your wrist and seeing the time appear.

I actually think that's really inconvenient. I don't have to draw my watch as it stands! A lot of this technology looks cool but it's actually really poorly thought out functionality wise.

Sharpshooter

Earthhorse wrote: »

I actually think that's really inconvenient. I don't have to draw my watch as it stands! A lot of this technology looks cool but it's actually really poorly thought out functionality wise.

You only need to draw an outline, I hate wearing a watch so I would love this.

Earthhorse

I don't wear a watch, I use my mobile to keep track of time, as do most people I would think.

It's a nice idea but I'm hardly going to sit there when I first meet someone, reading their blog off their shirt whilst pretending I'm actually talking to them.

Ciaran500

Earthhorse wrote: »

It's a nice idea but I'm hardly going to sit there when I first meet someone, reading their blog off their shirt whilst pretending I'm actually talking to them.

Thats one idea they had for it and it wasn't even a big part of the video.

Sharpshooter

Earthhorse wrote: »

I don't wear a watch, I use my mobile to keep track of time, as do most people I would think.

It's a nice idea but I'm hardly going to sit there when I first meet someone, reading their blog off their shirt whilst pretending I'm actually talking to them.

I use my mobile for time also,and it's a pain if I leave the house without it.

It was the technology I was admiring and the possibilities in the future.

I did say that I wondered about the fact that people might not want that whole blog reading ect when they meet someone for whatever reason, because she did not go into that end of it.

If I want people to know something about me I will tell them and would resent one of these gadgets being used.