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Frankly speaking, Pranav’s
thinking starts a thousand
kilometers ahead of the point
where the human imagination
ends. His latest gadget and a
bouquet of numerous exciting
and surprising inventions
have taken him to sky
heights.
Before joining Samsung,
Mistry was a Research
Assistant and PhD candidate
at the MIT Media Lab. Mistry
has worked with Microsoft,
Google, CMU, NASA,
UNESCO, Japan Science &
Technology among others
Background:
Born and raised in Palanpur,
he identifies with “diamonds,
attar and poetry”, Mistry was
fortunate to be exposed to a
spirit of enquiry both at home
and school.
He went to a Gujarati-medium
school, Vidya Mandir, where
“as seventh graders, my
classmates and I would
make rockets to see what
made them fly, and models of
remote-controlled motor boats
because Palanpur had heavy
rainfall”.
Education:
* Bachelor of Computer
Engineering at Gujarat
University
* Master of Design at IDC,
IIT Bombay
* Master of Science at MIT
Media Lab, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
* PhD at MIT Media Lab,
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
Pranav’s Magic - ‘The Sixth
Sense Technology’
The exceptional Sixth
Sense Technology is a lively
example of Pranav Mistry’s
designing genius. This super
technology enables you to
use the whole world as an
information source. ‘Sixth
Sense’ 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.
Now you can make a
newspaper to show live video
news or dynamic information,
a gesture of drawing a circle
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