Futuretech: Sixth Sense

If the future is coming it’s probably coming from M.I.T. In this TED talk Pattie Maes reveals one of the newest developments from the institute’s Media Lab. The applications appear to be rough but no less fascinating. There are a number of questions to pose about this technology but the first that comes to my mind is this:

Would this hardware be less or more queer to wear than a Bluetooth headset?

Style might be the least of our concerns though because as Maes mentions at the end of the talk “Who knows maybe in another ten years we will be here with the Sixth Sense brain implant.” I don’t want to overreact to a light-hearted closing quip, but imagine the implications! If you thought Paris Hilton’s cell phone hack was bad what about when President Jonathan Krohn brings the first SixthSense (copyright: Research In Motion) brain implant to the white house. Manchurian Candidate here we come.