Pranav Mistry: Young Innovator who made India proud

Pranav Mistry, I am sure most of tech savvy people are familiar with this name and  for those who don't know him I would like to introduce him to you. 

Pranav, is a Research Assistant and PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab, Mistry is best known for his work on Sixth Sense which is also known as Wear Ur World (WUW). Let's have a look on his major projects.

Sixth Sense: The SixthSense technology contain a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera contained in a pendant-like, wearable device. Both the projector the camera and sensers are connected to a mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks users' hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tips of the user’s fingers. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. SixthSense supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The open source code for the project can be found at SixthSense Google Code andSixthSense Github Repo

 SPARSH – a novel way to copy-paste data between digital devices.

Quickies – intelligent sticky notes that can be searched, located and can send reminders and messages.

Mouseless : The Mouseless is a proposed input device for personal computers.  Mouseless replaces conventional hardware mouse with a set ofinfrared laser strobe, an infrared camera and image recognition software. The laser beam is optically split into a wide beam illuminating an imaginary plane above the working desk. The camera captures the pattern of invisible infrared light as it illuminates user's hand. The user rests the palm on the desk and commands the system in the same way as he or she would do with a conventional mouse.

BlinkBot: is a wearable glasses system that detects wearer's gaze and blink and use it to command a robot.

Awards and Achievements of Pranav 

 Winner of TR35 2009 award, Technology Review

Winner of Invention of the Year award, Popular Science

Winner of Young Indian Innovator 2009 award, Digit Magazine

Speaker for TED 2009 talk, TED 2009, Long Beach, CA

  2010 Creativity 50 recipient

Hats off to this young innovator, Pranav Mistry you are role model for young India.

Courtsey: Wikipedia, CNET