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First there were PDAs, then cellphones and then the merger of cellphones+PDAs variously known as Smart Mobile devices or Smart Phones. All are related to what was promised a long time ago - Preferred Information At your Fingertips or PIAF devices. Now after several innovative and ersatz tries by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Palm and others, MIT has come up with its solution, Sixth Sense ... and like the OLPC-One Laptop Per Child, the ideas around the Sixth Sense device will surely shake and shape the market for mobiles and PIAF devices.

The device is still prenatal or Google Alpha - but the ideas like projection of the touch interface onto any surface are vibrant. They have definitely been seen in other research quarters but here see amazing resilience and intuitive appeal. Watch for Sixth Sense either to emerge itself or to spur the sincerest form of flattery, imitation by competitors within the next 18 months or less.