SIXTH SENSE TECHNOLOGY

us wherever we want to go, that we know how to interact with them. The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine. For this Imagine a wearable device that lets you physically interact with interfaces that appear in front of you on any surface, where and when you want them.

ABSTRACT

Technology separates us from the physical world more and more. Even social networking sites are taking us away from the physical world. We like making things that we can touch, we can feel. We can take with

The world @ your fingertips

INTRODUCTION:
We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about

everything and which is increasingly all available online. Although the miniaturization of computing devices allows us to carry computers in our pockets, keeping us continually connected to the digital world, there is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen. Sixth Sense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. Sixth Sense frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer. Sixth Sense is a tool that connects the physical world with the world of data. If you are from those who just believe that there are only five senses then I must say you are wrong. Because, those five senses are provided by nature. Now technology is going to provide you an addition sense named as sixth sense. Its an exciting new research from MIT students which

CONSTRUCTION:
Basically, Sixth Sense is a mini-projector coupled with a camera and a cell phonewhich acts as the computer and your connection to the Cloud, all the information stored on the web. Sixth Sense can also obey hand gestures. The key here is that Sixth Sense recognizes the objects around you, displaying information automatically and letting you access it in any way you want, in the simplest way possible. However, instead of requiring you to be in front of a big screen like Tom Cruise, Sixth Sense can do its magicand a lot more everywhere, even while you are jumping hysteric over Oprah's sofa. The camera recognizes objects around you instantly, with the micro-projector overlaying the information on any surface, including the object itself or your hand. Then, you can access or manipulate the information using your fingers.

have been experimented successfully; we will find it in the market as a wearable gestural interface. The Sixth Sense covers the phenomenon of:

Telepathy - mind-to-mind communication

Precognition - the foreseeing of future events. Retro cognition - the ability to see past events Psychometric - the ability to learn the history of
an object

ORIGIN:
This sixth sense technology was developed in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) by an Indian born scientist of research and development. They created a device that can turn any surface into a touch-screen for computer, controlled by simple hand gestures.

Clearly, this has the potential of becoming the ultimate "transparent" user interface for accessing information about everything around us. But as it is now, it may change the way we interact with the real world and truly give everyone complete awareness of the environment around us.

WORKING:
The Sixth Sense prototype is comprised of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the users pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; While the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the users fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus Sixth Sense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The Sixth Sense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. You can use any surface, including your hand if nothing else is available, and interact with the data. The projector itself contains a battery inside, with 3 hours of battery life.

APPLICATIONS:
The software recognizes 3 kinds of gestures: multitouch gestures, like the ones you see in Microsoft Surface or the Iphone -- where you touch the screen and make the map move by pinching and dragging .What we call freehand gestures The camera recognizes objects around you instantly, with the micro-projector overlaying the information on any surface, including the object itself or your hand. Then, you can access or manipulate the information using your fingers. Need to make a call? Extend your hand on front of the projector and numbers will appear for you to click.

(You can use your hand to make calls )

The Sixth Sense system implements a gestural camera that takes photos of the scene the user is looking at by detecting the framing gesture. The user can stop by any surface or wall and flick through the photos he/she has taken.

Need to know the time? Draw a circle on your wrist and a watch will appear.

Want to take a photo? Where the device can

even allow a user to take a photograph of a scene with your hands, by simply holding your hand in the air and making a framing gesture. [ Just make a square with your fingers, highlighting what you want to frame, and the system will make the photo]

But those are just novelty applications. The true power of Sixth Sense lies on its potential to connect the real world with the Internet, and overlaying the information on the world itself. Imagine you are at the supermarket, thinking about what brand of soap is better. Or maybe what wine you should get for tonights dinner. Just look at objects, hold them on your hands, and Sixth Sense will show you if its good or bad, or if it fits your preferences or not. The gadget can recognize items on store shelves then retrieve and project information about products or even provide data with other choices that are prone to the users tastes.

 You can watch a video on your newspaper's front page, where a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper.

Now take this to every aspect of your everyday life. You can be in a taxi going to the airport, and just by taking out your boarding pass, Sixth Sense will grab real time information about your flight and display it over the ticket. You wont need to do any action. Just hold it in front of your and it will work. let him or her know whether their flight is on time, or even see books in a book store and project reviews or author information from the Internet onto blank pages.

You can navigate through a map on your dining table, and flick through photos on any wall. The "Sixth Sense"

Iconic gestures, drawing an icon in the air. Like, whenever I draw a star, show me the weather. When I draw a magnifying glass, show me the map. You might want to use other gestures that you use in everyday life. This was very comfortable

Sixth Sense is a wearable hi-tech device that can easily channel Internet information into our daily life chores, which helps to find many things and reveal their purpose in meaning full way. This technology makes the world @ your fingertips. It is your third eye, your digital eye, connecting you to the world of digital information.

ADVANTAGES:
The device is a mobile device. Means, it is so light we can take it with us where ever we want to. It is as small as a cell phone and is so simple to use. We can accesses our work place. from any

It can focused on any surface we can anything as screen. It is also a touch screen system easy to perform work on it.
In the product purchasing it is very useful

to select the perfect goods.

any floor.

REFERENCE: DISADVANTAGES:
The projector runs on batteries for power where regularly have to replace. As it is based on free hand gestures we have to give correct instructions i.e., hand movements to the projector.

CONCLUSION:
Main articles:

Parapsychology, Scientific investigation of telepathy & Ganzfeld experiment. Human gestures and interfaces.

Small Wonders, Endless Frontiers: A Review of the National Initiative," National Academy Press, 2002.

WEB SITES:

www.phaseview.com www.pressureprofile.com www.TED.com