Sixth Sense Technology:
When the Digital World Meet the Real World

Features

One of the messages of the Sixth Sense is that the digital world take part in the physical world. Once this technology is constructed, it will be used to come true a number of human illusions of future technology.

For instance, do you think holding up your hands in a photo-framing gesture and actually taking a picture, then browsing pictures on a nearby surface, then sending photos by dialing numbers on your hand will be a possibility (Iezzi, 2009)? The answer is definitely yes in term of Sixth Sense technology.

You can be like living in the 22nd century retrieving information wherever you want without taking a heavy boxlike laptop everywhere. The irons which usually appear in your desktop will be surround you in the air, and you can touch it simply using your fingers. Here are more features that presented in Dr. Mistry's demonstration:

* You pick up a book and hold it in front of you. You see, projected onto its cover, reader ratings and reviews.

* When you want to check the time, you draw a circle on your left wrist; the projector displays a clock right on your arm.

* You hold up your boarding pass; the words DELAYED 20 MINUTES or ON TIME are beamed onto it.

* You hold up your left hand, fingers pointing to the right. The system recognizes that you want to make a call, and projects a dialing pad onto your fingers. You tap the virtual keypad with your right hand to dial the call.

* You run into a guy at a party. The system projects his name and Facebook keywords onto his T-shirt, so you can remember who he was and start a conversation. (Pogue, 2009)

If your were to build a new information world, where would you start? According to Husted and Melvin, an obvious place to begin is to look at the world around you (2001). Since human being is the subject, it is no doubt to satisfy human desire is the very first mission. In this case, Sixth Sense can make your world full of possible.