MIT’s Sixth Sense Reality Enhancer
So, I’m at a cocktail party and can’t for the life of me remember the dude’s name and what I learned about him at the last networking event I attended for unemployed geeks. Enter the latest cool device from MIT students which can make me seem a bunch smarter than my normal IQ or EQ. I can know the dude’s name and an incredible list of things about him posted on his LinkedIn profile and/or his facebook, etc. etc. by having it all projected onto the wall behind him so I can cheat right over his shoulder. Oh, yeah, his name is “Butch” and his wife is a geek that just got laid off at Intel. The dogs name is “Mickey” and he has two girls who take tap dancing lessons.
So far, so good. But then my device becomes useless when the projection disappears as my connection fails and I’m left standing, staring over his shoulder, straining for information about where to take the conversation with Butch after I talked about his two girls. Somehow my tap-dance never got us to the adult part about employment opportunities in the bright future that Obama promised. I guess I’ll just have to wait for the MITers to perfect their wearable computer device and see what 2013 brings around.
Check out the thing at http://tinyurl.com/btkurv
And say “Hi” to Butch next time you see him. And ask how his new job is going, if he has one with the government or something.