The expression i had after watching the whole 15 mins of the video..Just makes me wonder if we'd need smart phones,internet tablets anything that we crave for when it comes to catchy gadgets or powerful machines that we'd always like to own,This technology could be one of its kind..a major breakthrough in technology..more importantly can be hampering to the current tech economy driven scenario. what is your take on this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtANPtnhyg

Right now it is a very cool laboratory experiment. Probably 10 years from a commercial product. The image processing required takes gobs of processing power and the programming language that could describe the variability of real-world situations probably doesn't exist yet.

Kindof like the holographic data storage that I've been hearing about for 10 years... (wiki HVD)... 10 TB on one disc.

Dream about the future, but not at the expense of today.

Remember, your grandma pushed a hoop with a stick. A stick!!!

Well at the expense of $350 i think it could make for a neat household experiment afterall we've got fones tht cost twice as much..donchu think so..

Just noticed your from Houston too. Neat to know there are other N900 users around here.

Don't get me wrong, that device is freakin sweet! It's been on TED a couple times. But the video shows how it could work as a finished product, not how it does work. What you don't see is all the hardware reconfig and software work that happened between each scene. I think I've seen about 4 or 5 different sets of hardware for it. It makes the N900 look like a polished showroom piece.

If you want one now, the easiest way would be to build it yourself. I wish he would share his software, but his website looks pretty sparse.

@flynx..It still looks very unpolished i agree..neither are we arguing about its competence with other products in the same genre..I picked up the $350 price to build the whole set up info from another source..and if its open sourced the possiblities seem endless..but looks like somethings not gonna let tht happen so easily.

wow interesting ! This guy is going to become big. Especially when he said "open source"

WOW!!

I can't wait to see where this goes once Rachel Zoe gets her hands on this technology!

Ba. Nanas.

If the whole setup can be built for $350 (which isn't unbelievable), then they aren't giving presentations at TED because they spent $350 on a webcam and projector. Writing software that can recognize faces is hard. Writing software that can recognize gestures is hard. He's written software that can distinguish between faces, gestures, and objects, and *then* recognize them. At least, that's the idea. I would love to see his project released as open source, but he has to resist the buy-out offers from major companies that he is surely getting. That is, of course, if the university doesn't claim ownership first.

I don't get why you'd want to use a projector? everyone could see what you were doing!
Surely this would be better implemented with a transparent heads up, probably with gaze tracking?
Integrate that with face recognition, for that terminator style..
Look at someone. comp knows who they are, finds you their relevant details, overlays them on your view, tells you it's thier birhday.
Wow what a good memory you have...
You could even file people ase friend or foe?