===================== There are more 3 B people with a camera in their pocket And this is a creating a revolution in imaging and visual computing I and my students at MIT Media Lab are using imaging for futuristic technolgies as well as social innovation .. via health diagnostics on mobile phones in this case to get eyeglasses prescription and scan for cataract, camera that can visualize the world at a trillion frames per second and can see around corners, 3D lightfield cameras and glasses free 3D displays And a series of invention are emerging in diverse areas like augmented reality, 3D printing ====== We all have an innate ability to invent and solve problems //Each of us is pushing the envelope in innovation and art and design in unique ways But often the process of invention seems very confusing What I have learned is that I need a mental framework If I hear a great idea X, how do I come up with what is neXt `` I call this framework an Idea Hexagon It is all commonsense but we can apply simple formulas to X to come up with dozens of ideas ====== Xd Lets start with a simple example Flickr was sold was $1B and Youtube for $1.6B for clever compression and display For displays, we have gone up a dimension from 2D to 3D but require those funny glasses. So we are building glasses free 3D .. If you have to create glasses free 3D, you have to actually build a 4D display Appearance of even a static scene is not 3D but 4D, try explain that to grandma Challenge is, to create this 4D display, one would require 1TB bandwidth to the display New combination of mathematics and electro-optics technique to achieve optical compression ====== X+Y Strategy 2 is to combine X with another idea Y. I went to get a CT scan and CT scan: for fractures or blood flow analysis Well it turns out in astronomy, one has to use coded apertures to look at faint stars So I and my group has invented a new CT scan technique that exploits this coding to eliminate the scary mechanical motion And in the future we can imagine CT scanners that are as flexible and portable as a head band or a chest band ====== You can use it to come with ideas not just for tech but also in finance, arts and even your relationships ====== X hammer I grew up in Nasik, close to here in a family with modest income. No tv or a fridge or eating out. But my father did give me a cheap b/w camera and a single roll of film. Developing was expensive, so you know how long it took me to take those 24 photos. Week/month/ a whole year! I used to practice days just composing the shots. Well I have come a long way from that .. in our lab we have build a camera How does light look in slow motion? To do that I have to slow down the video by a factor of 10B And we can use this amazing hammer, this amazing technique of ultra-fast photography to all kind of nails .. ====== X nailer ====== X ++ Add your favorite adjective Wikipedia is encyclopedia democratized Facebook is Pandora is radio personalized ======= The foam rubber moment for me was the announcement of the high resolution LCDs Netra Socio Economic problem Recently, we have recvd a huge boost with over a million dollars in funding to bring glasses to the masses ======= When we saw this woman converting a weighing scale into a business I realized these entreprenuer will technology to masses in scale and in unimaginable ways Everyone has an innate ability to invent and solve problems and with a mental framework every one of us can take amazing technologies and social innovation to the next level Thanks ======= Whether its for futuristic technologies like the camera that can look around corners, for nextgen experiences in 3D or social innovation via mobile phone based diagnostics, the mental framework for idea hexagon lets create a new revolution I want to hear from you how you come up with next ideas ====================================================== Given that anyone can capture, process and share videos, what will be the future of movies and news With intellegence built into everyday objects, will we live in a mostly virtual and augmented reality world 9881200992 / 9764314055 Nitin Kulkarni Photos required: VoT, telescope/astronomy Portable CT: Jaywon thesis figures or 'waistbelt' Value of Flickr and YouTube (1.6B) VoT movies Popular references Special effects Instagram facebook/iphone telescope/microscope As a professor, we do some class exercides and also give you a hw