Oh darn, you beat me I wanted to sift this some 40 hours ago (at which time it had recently been sifted - that was just before the Siftpocalypse) and forgot to do it now that VS came back online. Still, great sift, should be way up there in the Top15.

Holy shit!!!

i cant find a video on this, but lets combine this tech with:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uom-uom_1031109.php

^ Moving parts are not that great for objects that move around a lot. Solid state memory takes up less space and is getting much faster. There are 16gb cards that I can put in my phone... I doubt harddrives will get that small cheaply.

http://www.cookingmomster.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/micro_sd_card.jpg

The motor technology will certainly help harddrives, but they will mostly be used for backups in the future rather than primary storage.

I was really blown away and impressed by this... it's one of those things where you just know there are a gazillion uses for that people haven't yet thought of, much like the Internet. I hope this thing comes to fruition... I can't wait.

I wonder if the prototype that they showed actually works or if all that stuff was just a simulation.

Do you guys really consider this to be a sixth sense device? It looks to me like a projector, cellphone and camera strapped together around your neck. And walking around making weird gestures are in the same category to me as talking to a bluetooth wireless headset, and could probably get you killed.

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I'm thinking this would be better projected onto the inside of glasses or to the retina. That way when you have tags all over your friends shirt - only you are seeing them. Still very neat stuff though.

I also don't think describing this as a "sixth sense" is the way to go.

I think it's a pseudo sixth sense in a way. But what you are going to find out about certain things are limited (or perhaps not actually true) on the information contained in the visible/invsible tags of that product/person. This is just another way (albeit a much cooler one) to market a perhaps bad product positively.

I mean come on, you're looking for an STD-free hooker then you find one with a tag that says "100% clean, *click here for her blog about her finding men with little dick very attractive*---*click here about some of the comments of the satisfied customers*---etc...etc...

you picked her up and after a week you found out that your left nut is missing and your pee hole is closing...

kidding aside, this technology is very, very promising.

and FYI I don't have a small dick and I have a perfectly healthy genital. And I don't pick up hookers. And I don't go on looking for some hooker classified adds on some tabloids or internet. And I certainly dont bring 'em in my parent's house to do the deed.

just so you know.

The TED channel YouTube embed is usually faster and higher quality than TED's own embed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ-VjUKAsao&feature=channel_page

Wow. This is obviously an incredible feat of engineering. However, is this technological advancement seriously going to enrich our lives or is it merely another tool that marketers can exploit and use to sell products? It seems to me that the main aim of "sixth sense" is to reduce the amount of thought required in selecting a product which will streamline our preferences to make participating in a market economy more efficient. Personally, the more I willingly buy shit that I don't need, the less enriched my life is.

It's crap, but it's coming anyway.

A person living in a village a dozen centuries ago might never see or meet more than a hundred people in their entire (short) life nor travel more than a few hundred miles. They also wouldn't have done much differently than their distant ancestors, dealing with technology, farming, traditions, etc.

By comparison the average modern human living in a First World country may have traveled the globe and been exposed to millions of micro-experiences aside from their own career and lifestyle. And yet people today, while healthier and certainly wealthier, are no more happier.

Honestly, the more I think about it, the more it seems gimmicky more than anything else. Much of what it shows you can already do, just with a wireless internet or WiFi phone. Yeah okay, it's nifty you can do it fully with gestures and without pulling a device out of your pocket, but I'd rather have that over having to stand in front of a wall for extended periods of times. Although it's still a nice idea, some things will definitely be more suited to this kind of interface.

The rest is predicated on the idea that it can take sensory inputs from where you are, correctly identify them and feed you back relevant information. If they can create a low cost, compact device that can do this and provide you will lots of valuable metadata, then great but I haven't seen a usable implementation of this yet and their demonstrated isn't exactly convincing enough by itself because it's obviously a simulation of what would be possible.

Happiness is relative.

>> ^quantumushroom:
It's crap, but it's coming anyway.
A person living in a village a dozen centuries ago might never see or meet more than a hundred people in their entire (short) life nor travel more than a few hundred miles. They also wouldn't have done much differently than their distant ancestors, dealing with technology, farming, traditions, etc.
By comparison the average modern human living in a First World country may have traveled the globe and been exposed to millions of micro-experiences aside from their own career and lifestyle. And yet people today, while healthier and certainly wealthier, are no more happier.

great, people with borg implants talking too loud to apparently no one isn't enough, now they'll also be doing mime impersonations in front of walls.

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