MIT's Fluid Interfaces Group and its conceptual "sixth sense" device

T&A: As the world’s financial system spins out of control, many are now grasping with the idea that less is  indeed more, simplicity is definitely new and our five natural senses are the root of all innovations.

A group of research students from Cambridge’s Massachusetts Institute of Technology, or famously known as MIT, have developed a conceptual 3-dimensional multi-touch interface that is able to harness the power of the Net using a combination of a camera, mobile phone, a micro projector and our five senses to fully “predict” our future, or sort of.

In essence, what the device does is to collect relevant information off what you see, feel and touch, while cross-referencing these information against what’s available about the user online. The result would be projected off the projector for you to view and further interact with it.

Of course, words don’t really explain the concept well enough. So here’s a video off Wired.com to help you see the concept in action: