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I must admit I’m pretty blown away by this latest TED talk I watched today. The developer of this software, Pranav Mistry, certainly has a very clear grasp of practical applications for the ever increasing amount of information the Information Age is accumulating, and the delivery of such information for, amongst other things, the benefit of future generations.

This by virtue of allowing users to make ecologically sound purchasing decisions. Besides that, this new software has the ability to replace the ‘vehicles’ of current software delivery. That means no more redundant cellphone casings, no more throwaway cameras, no more obsolete monitors. One can imagine a reusable fashionable casing with allows the innards of such a machine to be covered by something a little more fashionable.

I would suspect in the future the cellphone would be included in the actual product. Check out what I’m referring to in this video. It’s a video of a recent talk by Pattie Maes from Media Lab who gave this TED talk, regarding a new invention/development they’re working on called “Sixth Sense.”

It’s well worth watching the entire thing, if youre at all interested in where we are practically guaranteed to be going on the technological front.

This is the desciption in their own words:

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. SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

You can read more about this project here.

Expect this in your iPhone sometime in the next 5 years.