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The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

You’ve got to watch this video; another remarkable one from TED. It’s only 13.5 minutes.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixthsense_technology.html

This guy, Pranav Mistry, who is presenting at the TEDIndia Conference is a genius. I am not a techie, so the techie’s can comment on the technology; however, from what I gathered, this innovation truly revolutionizes how we will live and work each day by integrating the real world with the digital world and vice versa. This will have immense application in transaction intensive and repetitive tasks, something that the outsourcing and the back-office shared services industry experiences each day.

About Pranav Mistry

Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab. Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology). Mistry is passionate about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions.

Some previous projects from Mistry's work at MIT includes intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. His research interests also include Gestural and Tangible Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, AI, Machine Vision, Collective Intelligence and Robotics.

About this talk

At TEDIndia, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all.

About TED

TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.

Shashi Tharoor: Why nations should pursue "soft" power

For those involved with outsourcing and particularly with India or in any form of business dealings with India, you will find this short 17.5 minutes TED talk very informative and interesting.

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

About this talk
India is fast becoming a superpower, says Shashi Tharoor -- not just through trade and politics, but through "soft" power, its ability to share its culture with the world through food, music, technology, Bollywood. He argues that in the long run it's not the size of the army that matters as much as a country's ability to influence the world's hearts and minds.

About Shashi Tharoor
Author and activist, Shashi Tharoor, is a member of Parliament and the Indian minister of state (i.e. deputy minister) for external affairs.

About TED
TED is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. Since then its scope has become ever broader. Along with the annual TED Conference in Long Beach, California, and the TEDGlobal conference in Oxford UK, TED includes the award-winning TEDTalks video site, the Open Translation Program, the new TEDx community program, this year's TEDIndia Conference and the annual TED Prize.