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MIT sees dead people. Well, not really.

At last month’s annual TED conference, MIT’s Pattie Maes demoed what she called the new 6th Sense, which took the form of a wearable piece of tech that was able to translate your gestures and behaviour into functional and useable data. The uses for such a device are enormous, as you’ll see in the video, but the most fascinating part is that this is not simply theory but practical fact. At a cost of $350 “cobbled together” with “off the shelf parts” at an MIT lab, the device is not only a working reality, but ms. Maes claims that, if it went into production tomorrow, it would not cost more to build than any cell phone available today.

I want one.

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