Is the sixth sense technology required?
The TED(Technology.Entertainment and Design) summit at Mysore recently drew people from different walks of life and the one sensation was the announcement of a wearable computer and any surface computing by NRI scientist,Pranav Mistry,who termed it as sixth sense technology. As it is modern life is already overburdened by increasing tech gadgets,robots,which made our lives not only comfortable but also robbed us of minimum amount of exercising our limbs.Child obesity(mostly due to the kids spending hours before the idiot box eating,munching something,etc.) is one of the offshoots of the times we are in. On the other hand we have more pressing and urgent issues to be addressed now,in the wake of the Copenhagen summit on climate change.There is an urgent need to cut carbon emissions by industrialized and developing countries,who should adapt non conventional sources of energy like solar power,wind power,bio gas,etc.to make the earth a more habitable and ecologically sustainable place to