ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Pattie Maes - Researcher
As head of the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.

Why you should listen

Pattie Maes was the key architect behind what was once called "collaborative filtering" and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations -- or "things like this" -- fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes' Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology (and then a startup sold to Microsoft) that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they'd never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste. This brought a sea change in the way we interact with software, with culture and with one another.

Now Maes is working on a similarly boundary-breaking initiative. She founded Fluid Interfaces Group, also part of the MIT Media Lab, to rethink the ways in which humans and computers interact, partially by redefining both human and computer. In Maes' world (and really, in all of ours), the computer is no longer a distinct object, but a source of intelligence that's embedded in our environment. By outfitting ourselves with digital accessories, we can continually learn from (and teach) our surroundings. The uses of this tech -- from healthcare to home furnishings, warfare to supermarkets -- are powerful and increasingly real.

More profile about the speaker
Pattie Maes | Speaker | TED.com
Pranav Mistry - Director of research, Samsung Research America
As an MIT grad student, Pranav Mistry invented SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

Why you should listen

When Pranav Mistry was a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab, he worked with lab director Pattie Maes to create some of the most entertaining and thought-provoking interfaces the world had ever seen. And not just computer interfaces, mind you -- these are ways to help the digital and the actual worlds interface. Imagine: intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. And of course the legendary SixthSense, which is now open sourced

Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT. Now, as director of research at Samsung Research America, Mistry heads the Think Tank Team, an interdisciplinary group of researchers that hunts for new ways to mix digital informational with real-world interactions. As an example, Mistry launched the company's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, in 2013.

More profile about the speaker
Pranav Mistry | Speaker | TED.com
TED2009

Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry: Meet the SixthSense interaction

Pattie Maes + Pranav Mistry: Upoznajte interaktivnost "Šestog čula"

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O projektu labotarorija Pattie Maes na MIT-u, a koji predvodi Pranav Mistry, već se šuškalo na TED-u. Radi se o nosivom uređaju s projektorom koji utire put temeljitoj interakciji s okolinom. Zamislite 'Minority Report' i još malo više od toga.
- Researcher
As head of the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another. Full bio - Director of research, Samsung Research America
As an MIT grad student, Pranav Mistry invented SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data. Full bio

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I've been intriguedzaintrigirala by this questionpitanje
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of whetherda li we could evolverazviti or developrazviti a sixthšesti senseosjećaj --
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možemo li razviti ili proizvesti šesto čulo --
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a senseosjećaj that would give us seamlessbešavni accesspristup
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čulo koje bi nam pružilo brz
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and easylako accesspristup to meta-informationmeta-podatke
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i jednostavan pristup meta-informacijama
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or informationinformacija that maysvibanj existpostojati somewherenegdje
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ili informacijama koje bi negdje mogle postojati
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that maysvibanj be relevantrelevantan to help us make the right decisionodluka
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i biti nam od pomoći pri donošenju ispravne odluke
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about whateveršto god it is that we're comingdolazak acrosspreko.
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vezane uz bilo što čime se bavimo.
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And some of you maysvibanj argueraspravljati,
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Neki će reći,
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well, don't today'sdanas je cellćelija phonestelefoni do that alreadyveć?
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pa dobro, zar to već ne mogu mobiteli?
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But I would say no.
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Ne bih se složila s njima.
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When you meetsastati someonenetko here at TEDTED --
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Kad se ovdje na TED-u upoznajete s nekim,
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and this is the topvrh networkingumrežavanje placemjesto, of coursenaravno, of the yeargodina --
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a ovo je vrhunsko mjesto za umrežavanje, najvažnije ove godine -
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you don't shaketresti somebody'snetko je handruka
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nećete se rukovati s njime,
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and then say, "Can you holddržati on for a momenttrenutak
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pa reči: "Sačekaj samo malo
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while I take out my phonetelefon and GoogleGoogle you?"
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da izvadim telefon i vidim što Google kaže o tebi!?"
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Or when you go to the supermarketsupermarket
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Ili ako odete u supermarket
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and you're standingstajati there in that hugeogroman aisleprolaz
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i nađete se pred ogromnom ponudom
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of differentdrugačiji typesvrste of toiletWC papersnovine,
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različitih vrsta toaletnog papira,
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you don't take out your cellćelija phonetelefon, and openotvoren a browserpreglednik,
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nećete izvaditi mobitel, otvoriti internetski preglednik
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and go to a websiteweb stranica to try to decideodlučiti
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i otići na neku stranicu kako biste odlučili
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whichkoji of these differentdrugačiji toiletWC papersnovine
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koja bi od svih tih vrsta toaletnog papira
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is the mostnajviše ecologicallyekološki responsibleodgovoran purchasekupiti to make.
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mogla biti ekološki najosvještenija kupnja.
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So we don't really have easylako accesspristup
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Dakle, nemamo baš jednostavan pristup
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to all this relevantrelevantan informationinformacija
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svim bitnim informacijama
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that can just help us make optimaloptimalno decisionsodluke
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koje nam mogu pomoći pri donošenju optimalnih odluka
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about what to do nextSljedeći and what actionsakcije to take.
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o tome što bi nam trebao biti sljedeći korak i što učiniti.
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And so my researchistraživanje groupskupina at the MediaMedija LabLaboratorij
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Zato moja istraživačka skupina u Medijskom laboratoriju
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has been developingrazvoju a seriesniz of inventionsizumi
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razvija cijeli niz različitih rješenja
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to give us accesspristup to this informationinformacija
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kako bismo dobili pristup informacijama,
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in a sortvrsta of easylako way,
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tako jednostavan
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withoutbez requiringkoje zahtijevaju that the userkorisnik changespromjene any of theirnjihov behaviorponašanje.
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da od korisnika neće tražiti promjene u ponašanju.
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And I'm here to unveilskinuti veo
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Došla samkako bih vam predstavila
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our latestnajnoviji effortnapor,
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naše posljednje postignuće
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and mostnajviše successfuluspješan effortnapor so fardaleko,
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i najuspješnije postignuće do sada,
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whichkoji is still very much a work in processpostupak.
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koje je još uvijek debelo u fazi razvoja.
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I'm actuallyzapravo wearingnošenje the deviceuređaj right now
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Zapravo, taj uređaj upravo nosim na sebi
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and we'veimamo sortvrsta of cobbledkamenim it togetherzajedno
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Sklepali smo ga od dijelova
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with componentskomponente that are off the shelfpolica --
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koje možete naći na policama trgovina
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and that, by the way, only costcijena 350 dollarsdolara
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i koji, usput, u ovom trenutku
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at this pointtočka in time.
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koštaju 350 dolara.
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I'm wearingnošenje a camerafotoaparat, just a simplejednostavan webcamweb kamere,
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a portableprenosiv, battery-poweredbaterija-Power PC projectionprojekcija systemsistem with a little mirrorogledalo.
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i prijenosni projektor na baterije s ogledalcem
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These componentskomponente communicatekomunicirati to my cellćelija phonetelefon in my pocketdžep
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koji komuniciraju s mobitelom u džepu
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whichkoji actsdjela as the communicationkomunikacija and computationračunanje deviceuređaj.
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koji služi kao uređaj za komunikaciju i procesuiranje podataka.
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And in the videovideo here we see my studentstudent PranavNenad MistryMistry,
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Ovdje na snimci vidimo mog studenta Pranav Mistryja,
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who'stko je really the geniusgenije who'stko je been implementingprovođenje
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genija koji je osmislio
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and designingprojektiranje this wholečitav systemsistem.
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i implementirao čitav sustav.
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And we see how this systemsistem
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Vidimo kako mu ovaj sustav
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letsomogućuje him walkhodati up to any surfacepovršinski
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omogućuje da priđe bilo kojoj površini
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and startpočetak usingkoristeći his handsruke to interactinterakcija with the informationinformacija
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that is projectedprojektiran in frontispred of him.
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projiciranim ispred njega.
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The systemsistem trackspjesme the fourčetiri significantznačajan fingersprsti.
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In this casespis, he's wearingnošenje simplejednostavan markeroznaka capskape
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U ovom slučaju Pranav nosi obične kapice markera
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that you maysvibanj recognizeprepoznati.
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koje ste možda i sami prepoznali.
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But if you want a more stylishstilski versionverzija
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you could alsotakođer paintboja your nailsnokti in differentdrugačiji colorsboje.
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možete si nokte nalakirati različitim bojama.
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And the camerafotoaparat basicallyu osnovi trackspjesme these fourčetiri fingersprsti
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and recognizesprepoznaje any gesturesgeste that he's makingizrađivanje
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i raspoznaje geste koje on čini,
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so he can just go to, for exampleprimjer, a mapkarta of Long BeachPlaža,
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pa npr. može doći do karte Long Beacha
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zoomzum in and out, etcitd.
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povećavati ju, smanjivati itd.
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The systemsistem alsotakođer recognizesprepoznaje iconickultni gesturesgeste
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suchtakav as the "take a pictureslika" gesturegest,
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kao npr. gestu fotografiranja
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and then takes a pictureslika of whateveršto god is in frontispred of you.
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i onda snimi ono što se nalazi pred vama.
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And when he then walksšetnje back to the MediaMedija LabLaboratorij,
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A kad se vrati u Medijski laboratorij,
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he can just go up to any wallzid
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Pranav naprosto može otići do zida
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and projectprojekt all the picturesSlike that he's takenpoduzete,
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i projicirati sve slike koje je snimio,
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sortvrsta throughkroz them and organizeorganizirati them,
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pretraživati ih, slagati,
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and re-sizePromijeni veličinu them, etcitd.,
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mijenjati im veličinu i tako dalje,
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again usingkoristeći all naturalprirodni gesturesgeste.
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koristeći svoje prirodne pokrete.
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So, some of you mostnajviše likelyVjerojatno were here two yearsgodina agoprije
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and saw the demoogledni primjerak by JeffJeff HanHan
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kad je Jeff Han držao svoje predavanje,
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or some of you maysvibanj think, "Well, doesn't this look like the MicrosoftMicrosoft SurfacePovršina TableTablica?"
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pa biste mogli pomisliti, 'Hm, ovo mi sliči na Microsoft Surface Table...'
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And yes, you alsotakođer interactinterakcija usingkoristeći naturalprirodni gesturesgeste,
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bothoba handsruke, etcitd.
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objema rukama itd.
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But the differencerazlika here is that you can use any surfacepovršinski,
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you can walkhodati to up to any surfacepovršinski,
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includinguključujući your handruka if nothing elsedrugo is availabledostupno
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uključujući i vlastitu ruku ako na raspolaganju nemate ništa drugo
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and interactinterakcija with this projectedprojektiran datapodaci.
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i baratati projiciranim informacijama.
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The deviceuređaj is completelypotpuno portableprenosiv,
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and can be ...
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i može postati...
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So one importantvažno differencerazlika is that it's totallypotpuno mobilemobilni.
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AnotherJoš jedan even more importantvažno differencerazlika is that in massmasa productionproizvodnja
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Druga, još važnija razlika. je da ova stvar u masovnoj proizvodnji
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this would not costcijena more tomorrowsutra than today'sdanas je cellćelija phonestelefoni
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sutra ne bi koštala više od današnjih mobitela
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and would actuallyzapravo not sortvrsta of be a biggerveći packagingambalaža --
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i ne bi bila veća od njih,
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could look a lot more stylishstilski
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a mogla bi izgledati puno elegantnije
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than this versionverzija that I'm wearingnošenje around my neckvrat.
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nego ova varijanta koju nosim oko vrata.
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But other than lettingiznajmljivanje some of you liveživjeti out your fantasyfantazija
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of looking as coolsvjež as TomTom CruiseKrstarenje in "MinorityManjina ReportIzvješće,"
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kako bi mogli izgledati fora poput Tom Cruisea u 'Minority Reportu',
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the reasonrazlog why we're really exciteduzbuđen about this deviceuređaj
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razlog zašto je ovaj uređaj zaista uzbudljiv
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is that it really can actčin as one of these sixth-sensešesto čulo devicesuređaji
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je to što on zaista može poslužiti kao jedan od tih uređaja koji pružaju funkciju šestog čula,
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that givesdaje you relevantrelevantan informationinformacija
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koji vam daju bitne informacije
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about whateveršto god is in frontispred of you.
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o bilo čemu što se nalazi pred vama.
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So we see PranavNenad here going into the supermarketsupermarket
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and he's shoppingkupovina for some paperpapir towelsručnici.
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kupiti papirnate ubruse.
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And, as he picksmotika up a productproizvod the systemsistem can recognizeprepoznati
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the productproizvod that he's pickingbranje up,
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sustav ga prepoznaje
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usingkoristeći eitherili imageslika recognitionpriznanje or markeroznaka technologytehnologija,
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koristeći prepoznavanje slike ili tehnologiju označavanja
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and give him the greenzelena lightsvjetlo or an orangenarančasta lightsvjetlo.
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i prikazuje mu zeleno ili narančasto svjetlo.
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He can askpitati for additionalDodatne informationinformacija.
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So this particularposebno choiceizbor here
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is a particularlynaročito good choiceizbor, givendan his personalosobni criteriakriteriji.
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posebno dobar odabir koji uključuje njegove osobne kriterije.
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Some of you maysvibanj want the toiletWC paperpapir with the mostnajviše bleachbjelilo in it
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ratherradije than the mostnajviše ecologically-responsibleekološki odgovorna choiceizbor.
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radije nego ekološki najosvješteniji izbor.
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If he picksmotika up a bookrezervirati in the bookstoreknjižara,
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Ako uzme neku knjigu u knjižari,
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he can get an AmazonAmazon ratingOcjena --
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it getsdobiva projectedprojektiran right on the coverpokriti of the bookrezervirati.
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koja se projicira na same korice knjige.
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This is Juan'sJuan je bookrezervirati, our previousprijašnji speakerzvučnik,
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Ovo je Juanova knjiga, knjiga našeg prethodnog govornika,
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whichkoji getsdobiva a great ratingOcjena, by the way, at AmazonAmazon.
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koja na Amazonu, uzgred rečeno, dobiva izvrsne ocjene.
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And so, PranavNenad turnsokreti the pagestranica of the bookrezervirati
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Pranav zatim okreće stranicu
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and can then see additionalDodatne informationinformacija about the bookrezervirati --
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i dobiva dodatne informacije o knjizi -
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If he turnsokreti to a particularposebno pagestranica
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he findsnalazi an annotationprimjedba by maybe an expertstručnjak of a friendprijatelj of oursnaša
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možda će naći napomenu stručnjaka za našeg prijatelja
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that givesdaje him a little bitbit of additionalDodatne informationinformacija
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koja će mu pružiti malo dodatnih informacija
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about whateveršto god is on that particularposebno pagestranica.
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o nečemu što se nalazi na toj stranici.
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ReadingČitanje the newspapernovine --
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Čitajući novine --
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it never has to be outdatedzastarjeli.
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možda ih vrijeme neće nikada pregaziti.
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You can get videovideo annotationsprimjedbe of the eventdogađaj that you're readingčitanje about
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Možete dobiti video napomene vezane uz događaj o kojem čitate,
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You can get the latestnajnoviji sportssportski scoresrezultate etcitd.
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najnovije sportske rezultate itd.
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This is a more controversialkontroverzno one.
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Ovo je malo kontroverznije.
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As you interactinterakcija with someonenetko at TEDTED,
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Dok se družite na TED-u
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maybe you can see a wordriječ cloudoblak of the tagsoznake,
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možete ugledati oblak ključnih riječi
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the wordsriječi that are associatedpovezan with that personosoba
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povezanih s tom osobom
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in theirnjihov blogblog and personalosobni webmreža pagesstranica.
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putem njenog bloga ili osobnih stranica.
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In this casespis, the studentstudent is interestedzainteresiran in cameraskamere, etcitd.
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Ovog studenta zanimaju fotoaparati itd.
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On your way to the airportzračna luka,
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Na putu prema aerodromu
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if you pickodabrati up your boardingukrcaj passproći, it can tell you that your flightlet is delayedkasni,
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ako uzmete svoju kartu za ukrcaj, može vas obavijestiti o odgodi leta,
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that the gatevrata has changedpromijenjen, etcitd.
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promijeni izlaza, itd.
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And, if you need to know what the currentstruja time is
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A ako želite saznati koliko je sati
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it's as simplejednostavan as drawingcrtanje a watch --
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on your armruka.
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Moj student Pranav koji je zaista, baš kao što sam već rekla, genij koji stoji iza svega.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Pattie Maes - Researcher
As head of the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.

Why you should listen

Pattie Maes was the key architect behind what was once called "collaborative filtering" and has become a key to Web 2.0: the immense engine of recommendations -- or "things like this" -- fueled by other users. In the 1990s, Maes' Software Agents program at MIT created Firefly, a technology (and then a startup sold to Microsoft) that let users choose songs they liked, and find similar songs they'd never heard of, by taking cues from others with similar taste. This brought a sea change in the way we interact with software, with culture and with one another.

Now Maes is working on a similarly boundary-breaking initiative. She founded Fluid Interfaces Group, also part of the MIT Media Lab, to rethink the ways in which humans and computers interact, partially by redefining both human and computer. In Maes' world (and really, in all of ours), the computer is no longer a distinct object, but a source of intelligence that's embedded in our environment. By outfitting ourselves with digital accessories, we can continually learn from (and teach) our surroundings. The uses of this tech -- from healthcare to home furnishings, warfare to supermarkets -- are powerful and increasingly real.

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Pranav Mistry - Director of research, Samsung Research America
As an MIT grad student, Pranav Mistry invented SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.

Why you should listen

When Pranav Mistry was a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Lab, he worked with lab director Pattie Maes to create some of the most entertaining and thought-provoking interfaces the world had ever seen. And not just computer interfaces, mind you -- these are ways to help the digital and the actual worlds interface. Imagine: intelligent sticky notes, Quickies, that can be searched and can send reminders; a pen that draws in 3D; and TaPuMa, a tangible public map that can act as Google of physical world. And of course the legendary SixthSense, which is now open sourced

Before his studies at MIT, he worked with Microsoft as a UX researcher; he's a graduate of IIT. Now, as director of research at Samsung Research America, Mistry heads the Think Tank Team, an interdisciplinary group of researchers that hunts for new ways to mix digital informational with real-world interactions. As an example, Mistry launched the company's smartwatch, the Galaxy Gear, in 2013.

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Pranav Mistry | Speaker | TED.com