MIT’s Sixth Sense

9:14 pm | Engineering, Internet, MIT, Video | No comment

The Sixth Sense, a device that you can wear that allows new interactions between the real world and the world of data was invented by Pranav Mistry, 28, a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. A graduate of IIT and had worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher before his studies at MIT, Pranav Mistry is obsessed about integrating the digital informational experience with our real-world interactions.

A wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information, Sixth Sense allows us to use natural hand gestures to interact with information by just using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant that can be worn by the user. All it needs is a natural hand gestures, arm movements, or your interaction with the object itself.

Sixth Sense has been awarded 2009 Invention Award by Popular Science. Pranav also won Young Innovator Award TR35 byTechnology Review. In 2010, he was named to Creativity Magazine’s Creativity 50. Mistry has been called “one of the two or three, best inventors in the world right now” by Chris Anderson.

UMB student joins Anthurium Solutions

11:29 pm | Internet, University of Massachusetts | No comment

A University of Massachusetts’s student was hired by the newest establishment, the Anthurium Solutions. John Gray, College of Management, was recently employed by the company as their new web development intern. A growing software company that is situated in the Venture Development Center that has started developing a ground-breaking online matching and workflow platform to provide healthcare.

John Gray, the thirty-second student intern this year to be in a local establishment. These establishments are taking the benefit of work being made by the VDC’s entrepreneur in residence like Dan Phillips, a business adviser with great connections to the local tech group and Anna Tsui who knows some entrepreneurial students.

The students of UMass Boston are under-grad and grad majors in Computer Science, IT, MIS, Bio Tech, Green Energy, Management, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, and many more.

Illinois students build booming businesses

3:16 am | Internet, University of Illinois | No comment

Started with selling lemonade to gathering leaves and digging snow, these twins have their own series of booming business now.

Ashton Clark and Ryan Clark, both College of Business students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in accountancy, minor in technology and management. They are the ones behind the successful company, “Dynamik Duo”.

Ashton is the President, while Ryan is the Vice President of the Dynamik Duo which is also their investment company for some of their internet projects. They are a strong team that is why they called themselves “Dynamik”.  Both are responsible for running new business possibilities and expanding their current companies.

These two worked and studied hard to maintain good grades and be on top of their class. They sacrifice sleep just to attain it and keep up a successful business and make it through using time management.

Being taught by their mother to save money at a young age, they used it to launch their own companies. Their most effective marketing scheme is not to spend too much when you are just starting in internet marketing. Their best form of advertising is to tell their friends and others about it, in short, “word of mouth”.