MUMBAI: IIT-B graduate Pranav Mistry, best known for his futuristic work in computing, has promised a "big bang" innovation in about three months, at the Techfest on Sunday.
Mistry had started his research in 2001, at this very science and technology festival as a student.
Mistry, who along with his colleagues, is trying to make his SixthSense technology user-friendly for blind people, said "In the future, anything and everything will be possible."
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.
Mistry, who feels that the IIT designing degree was the best thing he did, said that Indian mythologies, like Ramayan and Mahabharat, the ideologies and strategies used, inspire him.
"Magic is possible with the use of technology and that is what inspired me," said Mistry, head of his think-tank team and director of research at Samsung Youngsters. "We need to look beyond the possible and draw inspirations from things which motivate you. I was inspired by former president A P J Abdul Kalam's thoughts. Kalam had said, 'The future is now,' and I have always stood by it."
Earlier in the day, Christopher Charles Benninger, an American-Indian architect and planner, spoke of what it takes to design a building appealing at the same time following the engineering way. He showed the development of architecture over the years, and also numerous interesting materials for constructing a building, including Sea Pearl. He also supported the originality in architecture.
On Sunday, Techfest saw a footfall of 55,000, which takes the overall footfall to 1.35 lakh. The best teams were
VIRGIN 2.0 from Malyasia and R.I.P. from India won the Robowars, the battle among bots. In the international robotics challenge, India's bots ended up the fastest, France's with the best and the most compact design and Sri Lanka's with the best overall participation.
Mistry had started his research in 2001, at this very science and technology festival as a student.
Mistry, who along with his colleagues, is trying to make his SixthSense technology user-friendly for blind people, said "In the future, anything and everything will be possible."
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.
Mistry, who feels that the IIT designing degree was the best thing he did, said that Indian mythologies, like Ramayan and Mahabharat, the ideologies and strategies used, inspire him.
"Magic is possible with the use of technology and that is what inspired me," said Mistry, head of his think-tank team and director of research at Samsung Youngsters. "We need to look beyond the possible and draw inspirations from things which motivate you. I was inspired by former president A P J Abdul Kalam's thoughts. Kalam had said, 'The future is now,' and I have always stood by it."
Earlier in the day, Christopher Charles Benninger, an American-Indian architect and planner, spoke of what it takes to design a building appealing at the same time following the engineering way. He showed the development of architecture over the years, and also numerous interesting materials for constructing a building, including Sea Pearl. He also supported the originality in architecture.
On Sunday, Techfest saw a footfall of 55,000, which takes the overall footfall to 1.35 lakh. The best teams were
VIRGIN 2.0 from Malyasia and R.I.P. from India won the Robowars, the battle among bots. In the international robotics challenge, India's bots ended up the fastest, France's with the best and the most compact design and Sri Lanka's with the best overall participation.
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