My husband called me last night all a-twitter and once I got him talking slow enough to understand that he wasn't going on about "six pennies", I could sympathize with the high level of enthusiasm. Earlier this year, "Sixth Sense Technology" from MIT—basically, a visual interface system that allows you and the computer in your cell phone to communicate in some truly astounding ways—was a big hit at TED. This week, at TED India, inventor Pranav Mistry announced that the technology will be released as open source…in a matter of months.
"Rather than waiting for that time to come, I want people to make their own system. Why not?," Mistry says in an article on Rediff Business. "People will be able to make their own hardware. I will give them instructions how to make it. And also provide them key software…give them basic key software layers…they will be able to build their own applications. They will be able to modify base level and do anything".
Makers, start your engines.
Mistry to make digital "Sixth Sense" open source on Rediff Business
The importance of Sixth Sense going open source on zdnet
Sixth Sense augmented reality device goes open source on Singularity Hub (natch)