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.

A student film maker at UC Irvine

6:52 pm | UC Irvine, Video | No comment

Edward Zeiden, a junior at UC Irvine, wanted to do something for film at a young age. A lot of artistic people want to avoid this: solid business principles.

He is very much more interested in producing movies than just acting in front of the camera. When he and his colleague film students needed a large fund for their on-going projects, they thought of using their talents to raise the money they need. They recently helped develop a commercial for a cough drop company that offered prizes for a one minute story.

Zeiden’s story, “Lovesick” that starred student actors Andreas DeRond, Vanessa Wolf, and a golden retriever named, Vida. You can view it now on YouTube. It will depend on how many people will watch the video and not how much it wins.

Being a student of business economics major, Zeiden has to make cost-efficient movies. Borrowed a camera, got volunteer student actors and quickly introduced the “rain or shine” dialogue.

Europe Business School students make video

11:33 pm | ESCP Europe Business School, Video | No comment

Over 300 ESCP Europe business school students joined forces to impart their school’s principles and views by creating a remarkable stop-motion video. It doesn’t require words to achieve it and bring us into their real human world.

Produced in a fun, creative, yet interesting way, the video requires a considerable number of equipments for the take: a suitable musical track, 316 extras, 658 t-shirts, 9m2 of foam board, 4,198 photos taken, and 125 meters of gaffer tape to place 3,654 marks.

The ESCP (École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris) Europe business school uploaded their viral video online last December 2, 2009 to all the major video sharing platforms like YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.