Blog#4

First of all I am very thankful to Mr. Herbst that he bring to us these talks which are very interesting. I chose “The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology” video by Pranav Mistry. In this video Pranav bring to us the new sense in addition to our five senses. He actually transfer our real gesture into digital frame by using the rollers that embedded in the mouse which control the Custer in our computer, some strings, pulleys and spring. He made interaction between the real world and dummy one or the digital one, as he interested more about this interaction he begin to bring another forms of our daily life to this dummy world or computer world by integrate his mother notes on a paper to his list to do application or receive it like a SMS, other example of attach sensor with pen and start create shapes in air but it is in screen of computer. By his interaction work he made the computer more aware from objects for example when he put a cup of coffee, the computer will give him where he can get more coffee or where he throw away the cup. So he made the computer give us more information rather what we need without asking it which reflect a solid interaction and connection. After all these achievements by making connection between the two totally different worlds and transfer things from real world to digital world, for his observation to people, he found the people more thirsty to get knowledge so he started to do the opposite thing by taking out things from digital world which is contain huge and solid information and put them in our real world, by using simple and cheap technology and small camera as  a digital eye by that he create his digital world which can carry it everywhere, by this device he now can apply the digital word to real world on any type of surface, for example you can draw any shape you want with any color with any size by your bare hand. You can take photos by your hand and you can edit them share them. He change the ideology of our dealing with objects.

In my opinion, as a civil engineer I really like the idea of using the pen to edit shapes and the way that we can control the objects. It’s very interesting to know there is like this technology which focuses to make people’s life easier. The most important thing how this person simple and how his vision is clear by made things from simple and cheap things and his aim to make this technology available for everyone which reflect that all people around the world should gain and get advantage from development of technology that totally different from the idea of many companies which they just want to monopoly the ideas.