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I See TED People

teachernz — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:49:33 +0000

At TED|India the genius that is Pranav Mistry revisits his sixth sense device, shares other human interface devices he’s worked on in the past and shows us a possible future of ubiquitous information and gesture based digital interaction. He also reveals that the software behind sixth sense technology is to be released as open source.

If you’ve seen sixth sense before – there’s more here, as well as an unusual use for a regular sheet of paper. If you can’t wait, the real fun starts at about 8:00 minutes in.

Where does this guy get his ideas?

Getting Over It

teachernz — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:24:19 +0000

If you’ve read my earlier post Talking the Talk you’ll know how I feel about hearing my recorded voice. Yesterday the chance arose to take another step up the ladder and produce a video.

@catspyjamasnz asked for people to contribute to her project What My PLN Means to Me and to add a video to the wiki.

So here’s my contribution. Like I’ve said before, we have to put ourselves out there and get over our dislikes, fears and phobias. How can we expect children to do this if we don’t?

A Glimpse into the Future?

teachernz — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 14:54:45 +0000

A month ago I sent this tweet about a video at MIT.

The link http://is.gd/nBFI goes to an article at Computerworld.com that includes a video that is amazing. It looks a bit clunky at the moment, (I compared it to this polished MicroSoft promo) but imagine what it could be like! I’d intended to blog about it, but other things came up and it slipped my mind/fell to the bottom of my to do list.

Today I found a video on TED that explains more about “Sixth Sense”. Watch it below.

Remember that this is a prototype. What if it was integrated onto our clothing or mobile devices? The possibilities are almost endless.