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Tech Revolutions: Photo Frame Printer

Seeing a photo behind a photo frame: Normal and expected.

Watching slideshow on a photo frame: Great, exciting

Printing the photos you watch using the frame: Surprised and this is what is called tech revolution.

iMo Photo Frame Printer looks just like any other photo frame except that it’s a bit more bulky (just if you want to carry it around). And a digital photo frame is not a rare specimen anymore. But if you/your guests are obsessed with some of the photos seen over the frame, it is just as simple to please them with a card print of the same. The surprise would be enough for inducing a bit of jealousness and you becoming the star of the night.

An 8 inch 800x600 photoframe that prints 4x6 photos engraved on your memory cards or USB sticks is worth a look. But it does not come for nothing. The frame itself costs about $200 and the printing ink catridge at $20 is worth 36 photos. This means for a card photo you would be spending a luxurious $2. And nothing else would be needed to explain your five figure salary to your guests.

Future is here: Sixth sense from Pranav Mistry

'SixthSense' is a wearable gestural interface that augments the physical world around us with digital information and lets us use natural hand gestures to interact with that information. By using a camera and a tiny projector mounted in a pendant like wearable device, 'SixthSense' sees what you see and visually augments any surfaces or objects we are interacting with. It projects information onto surfaces, walls, and physical objects around us, and lets us interact with the projected information through natural hand gestures, arm movements, or our interaction with the object itself. 'SixthSense' attempts to free information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

'SixthSense' website

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

Pranav Mistry is the genius behind Sixth Sense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.