Pranav Mistry at TED; The Sixth Sense


Pranav Mistry is a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab. Before joining MIT he worked as a UX Researcher with Microsoft. he received his Master in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT and Master of Design from IIT Bombay. He completed his bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering. Palanpur is his hometown, which is situated in northern Gujarat in India.
Exposure to fields like Design to Technology and from Art to Psychology gave him a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world. He love to see technology from design perspective and vice versa. This vision reflects in almost all of his projects and research work as well. in short, he does what he loves and he loves what he does. He saya that he is a 'Desigineer' :)

He Desigineered ..... various products

SixthSense
SPARSH
Mouseless
thirdEye
inktuitive
QUICKiES
TaPuMa
invent
DATAG2.02
Marbo
projectCHILD
SunFlower
Sandesh
Ghost in the machine
RoadRunner
VET
Sthiti
Akshar

When people are running after great products like Apple Iphone ,Thinkpad, Microsoft Surface technology .

Pranav made the single and exelent product with a tiny camera and a tiny projector the Sixthsense.

Making it a cost effective product and planning to release it as a open source produt in the market makes all the different.

You can find all his works in his personal website http://www.pranavmistry.com/