Body Language: Say good-bye to your remote, your joystick, your mouse. Soon you'll be waving your fingers to control everything from TVs to thermostats. Gesture technology may be a multibillion-dollar market by 2015. | Photograph by Bob O'Connor
Pranav MistryResearch Assistant, MIT Media LabCambridge, Massachusetts
Mistry, 29, invented SixthSense, a platform that uses a small camera to read and follow users' gestures.
"In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it. The system can turn anything into an interactive surface, from a table in Starbucks to the palm of your hand. There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words...
Pranav MistryResearch Assistant, MIT Media LabCambridge, Massachusetts
Mistry, 29, invented SixthSense, a platform that uses a small camera to read and follow users' gestures.
"In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it. The system can turn anything into an interactive surface, from a table in Starbucks to the palm of your hand. There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words...
- 4/21/2010
- by Stephanie Schomer
- Fast Company
Photograph by Bob O'Connor
Nada Hashmi and Jean Pierre Nshimyimana Fellows, MIT's Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hashmi and Nshimyimana, 29, are fellows at MIT's Legatum Center, established by GrameenPhone founder Iqbal Z. Quadir to connect aspiring entrepreneurs with technology experts and potential investors.
Hashmi: "My company will bring mobile health-care vans to remote villages, first in Saudi Arabia at the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012, and then to other areas in the Middle East. After attending lectures and speaking with my mentors and colleagues at MIT, I came up with the idea of using the vans not only as a way to distribute health care but also as an advertising vehicle for companies and other entities. That way, we can provide the service free to customers."
Nshimyimana: "I am now developing an environmental engineering consultancy that will provide clean water and green-energy solutions to rural areas, first in Rwanda and then,...
Nada Hashmi and Jean Pierre Nshimyimana Fellows, MIT's Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship Cambridge, Massachusetts
Hashmi and Nshimyimana, 29, are fellows at MIT's Legatum Center, established by GrameenPhone founder Iqbal Z. Quadir to connect aspiring entrepreneurs with technology experts and potential investors.
Hashmi: "My company will bring mobile health-care vans to remote villages, first in Saudi Arabia at the end of 2011 or the beginning of 2012, and then to other areas in the Middle East. After attending lectures and speaking with my mentors and colleagues at MIT, I came up with the idea of using the vans not only as a way to distribute health care but also as an advertising vehicle for companies and other entities. That way, we can provide the service free to customers."
Nshimyimana: "I am now developing an environmental engineering consultancy that will provide clean water and green-energy solutions to rural areas, first in Rwanda and then,...
- 3/24/2010
- by Gay Jervey
- Fast Company
Outstanding In His Field During his years at Whole Foods, Mackey has gone from hippie to Libertarian, from crunchy shopkeeper to CEO of an $8 billion retail beast. | Photograph Courtesy of Whole Foods Market
Photograph by Dwight Eschilman
John Mackey, the Libertarian CEO of Whole Foods, says not to worry: Capitalism and the invisible hand will cure the world's ills. But isn't it a little late to start believing in magic?
Building To Scale Jeffrey Hollender recently converted Seventh Generation into a B Corporation, a new for-profit status that imposes social as well as financial goals. | Photograph by Bob O'Connor
Just to be clear, John Mackey isn't Moses. "It's not like you go up to the mountaintop and God talks to you: Here is your purpose -- execute," he says.
"It is something you discover and also create." Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, is riffing on the gospel...
Photograph by Dwight Eschilman
John Mackey, the Libertarian CEO of Whole Foods, says not to worry: Capitalism and the invisible hand will cure the world's ills. But isn't it a little late to start believing in magic?
Building To Scale Jeffrey Hollender recently converted Seventh Generation into a B Corporation, a new for-profit status that imposes social as well as financial goals. | Photograph by Bob O'Connor
Just to be clear, John Mackey isn't Moses. "It's not like you go up to the mountaintop and God talks to you: Here is your purpose -- execute," he says.
"It is something you discover and also create." Mackey, founder and CEO of Whole Foods Market, is riffing on the gospel...
- 12/7/2009
- by Danielle Sacks
- Fast Company
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