Pranav Mistry The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology

Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense

They kind of have a sixth sense like Superman's x ray vision.

KB Second sight is whereby a mind control expert can see through somebody else's eyes.

And when it comes to sensory restoration, we're still very far away from being able to provide beauty.

Companies like mobile phone operators want to take this in a different way than the NGOs in India, who are thinking, Why can we only have 'Sixth Sense'?

So that's where we're at so far in developing this sixth sense that would give us seamless access to all this relevant information about the things that we may come across.

PM I'm trying to make this more available to people so that anyone can develop their own SixthSense device, because the hardware is actually not that hard to manufacture or hard to make your own.

Really when we think of our senses, or when we think of the loss of the sense, we really think about something more like this the ability to touch something luxurious, to taste something delicious, to smell something fragrant, to see something beautiful.

I've been intrigued by this question of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense a sense that would give us seamless access and easy access to meta information or information that may exist somewhere that may be relevant to help us make the right decision about whatever it is that we're coming across.

While other mammals rely heavily on their sense of smell, the arboreal life of primates has led to a tactile, visually dominant sensory system, a reduction in the olfactory region of the brain and increasingly complex social behavior.

So Indians take vicarious pleasure in the triumphs of mainstream pictures with an Indian connection the seven Oscars won by Richard Attenborough s Gandhi in 1983, for instance, or the success of The Sixth Sense, written and directed by a Philadelphian of Indian descent, Manoj Night Shyamalan.