Unveiling game-changing wearable tech | Pattie Maes

Translator: Andoni Sagarna Reviewer: Alvaro Moya

I've been intrigued by this question

Jakin-mina sortu izan digu

seigarren zentzumen bat garatzeko agian izan genezakeen aukera horrek.

of whether we could evolve or develop a sixth sense --

Topatzen dugun edozeri buruz

a sense that would give us seamless access

and easy access to meta-information or information that may exist somewhere

erabaki egokia hartzen laguntzeko esanguratsua izan daitekeen

metainformazioa edo nonbait dagoen informazioa

that may be relevant to help us make the right decision

modu egokian eskuratzea

about whatever it is that we're coming across.

ahalbidetuko diguna.

Eta zuetako batzuek esango duzue:

And some of you may argue,

"Well, don't today's cell phones do that already?"

eta gaur egungo sakelako telefono batzuek ez al dute hori egiten?

But I would say no.

Eta nik esan behar dut ezetz.

When you meet someone here at TED --

Hemen, TEDen norbaitekin juntatzen zarenean

and this is the top networking place, of course, of the year --

--eta hauxe da, hain zuzen, harremanak egiteko urteko lekurik egokiena--

ez diozu norbait bostekoa eman eta berehala

you don't shake somebody's hand

esaten "Itxoin dezakezu pixka bat

and then say, "Can you hold on for a moment

while I take out my phone and Google you?"

telefonoa hartu eta Googlen zutaz informazioa lortzen dudan bitartean?"

Edo supermerkatura joaten zarenean

Or when you go to the supermarket

and you're standing there in that huge aisle

eta hainbat motatako komuneko paperez betetako

of different types of toilet papers,

apalategi baten aurrean zaudenean,

you don't take out your cell phone, and open a browser,

ez duzu hartzen zure sakelako telefonoa, nabigatzailea ireki,

and go to a website to try to decide which of these different toilet papers

eta webgune batera jotzen komuneko paper horietako

zein den ekologia aldetik

is the most ecologically responsible purchase to make.

erosteko egokiena erabakitzeko?

Beraz ez dugu benetan eskura

So we don't really have easy access to all this relevant information

erabakirik egokiena hartzen lagunduko digun

that can just help us make optimal decisions

informazio esanguratsu

hori guztia.

about what to do next and what actions to take.

Horrela bada, Media Labeko nire ikerketa-taldea

And so my research group at the Media Lab

has been developing a series of inventions

asmakuntza batzuk garatzen ibili da

informazio hori guztia

to give us access to this information in a sort of easy way,

modu errazean eskuragarri jartzeko

without requiring that the user changes any of their behavior.

erabiltzaileak bere portaera aldatu beharrik gabe.

And I'm here to unveil our latest effort,

Eta hemen nago

gure azken ahaleginaren berri emateko.

and most successful effort so far,

Orain arte egin dugun ahalegin arrakastatsuena izan da,

which is still very much a work in process.

nahiz eta oraindik prozesuan dagoen zerbait den hein handi batean.

I'm actually wearing the device right now and we've sort of cobbled it together

Oraintxe bertan soinean dut tresna

eta konbinazio moduko bat egin dugu

with components that are off the shelf --

merkatuan aurkitzen diren eta oraintxe bertan 350 dolar

and that, by the way, only cost 350 dollars at this point in time.

besterik kostatzen ez diren

osagai batzuekin.

I'm wearing a camera, just a simple web cam,

Kamera bat daramat, webcam sinple bat,

a portable, battery-powered projection system with a little mirror.

bateriaz elikaturiko proiektore eramangarri bat ispilu txiki batekin.

These components communicate to my cell phone in my pocket

Osagai horiek aldi berean komunikazio- eta informatika-tresna den

which acts as the communication and computation device.

nire sakelako telefonoarekin komunikatzen dira.

And in the video here we see my student Pranav Mistry,

Eta bideoan nire ikasle Pranav Mistry ikusten dugu,

who's really the genius who's been implementing

benetan inplementazioa egiten eta sistema osoa diseinatzen

and designing this whole system.

ibili den jenioa dena.

And we see how this system lets him walk up to any surface

Eta ikusten dugu nola sistema honek

uzten dion edozein lekutan ibiltzen

and start using his hands to interact with the information

eta eskuak erabiltzen, aurrean proiektatzen den informazioarekin

that is projected in front of him.

interakzioan jarduteko.

The system tracks the four significant fingers.

Sistemak lau hatz esanguratsuen jarraipena egiten du.

In this case, he's wearing simple marker caps

Kasu honetan, errotuladore-tapoiak daramatza

that you may recognize.

antzemango zenuen bezala.

But if you want a more stylish version,

Baina bertsio finago bat nahi baduzu,

you could also paint your nails in different colors.

margotu ditzakezu zure azazkalak kolore desberdinetan.

And the camera basically tracks these four fingers

Eta kamerak lau hatz horien jarraipena egingo du

and recognizes any gestures that he's making

eta hura egiten ari den keinu guztiak ezagutzen ditu.

Horrela joan daiteke, adibidez, Long Beacheko mapa batera,

so he can just go to, for example, a map of Long Beach,

zoom in and out, etc.

zooma hurbildu eta urrundu, etab.

The system also recognizes iconic gestures such as the "take a picture" gesture,

Sistemak keinu ikonikoak ere ezagutzen ditu, hala nola

argazki bat ateratzeko keinua,

and then takes a picture of whatever is in front of you.

eta aurrean duzun edozeren argazkia ateratzen du.

Eta Media Labera itzultzen denean,

And when he then walks back to the Media Lab,

he can just go up to any wall

joan daiteke edozein paretaren aurrera

and project all the pictures that he's taken,

eta bertan proiektatu atera dituen argazkiak,

sort through them and organize them, and re-size them, etc.,

haiek ordenatu eta antolatu,

tamainaz aldatu, etab.,

again using all natural gestures.

berriro ere keinu naturalak erabiliz.

Beraz, zuetako batzuk izango zineten seguru asko hemen duela bi urte

So, some of you most likely were here two years ago

ikusiko zenuten Jeff Han-ek egin zuen demoa

and saw the demo by Jeff Han, or some of you may think,

"Well, doesn't this look like the Microsoft Surface Table?"

edo zuetako batzuek pentsatuko duzue, "Beno, honek ez al du bada Microsoft Surface Tableren itxura bera?"

And yes, you also interact using natural gestures,

Eta halaxe da, bi kasuetan keinu naturalak,

both hands, etc.

bi eskuak, etab. erabiliz izaten dira interakzioak.

But the difference here is that you can use any surface,

Baina aldea da kasu honetan edozein gainazal erabil dezakezula,

you can walk up to any surface,

edozein gainazal erabil dezakezula,

including your hand, if nothing else is available,

baita zeure eskua ere, besterik ez baduzu, eta

and interact with this projected data.

interakzioan jardun dezakezula proiektaturiko datu horiekin.

The device is completely portable, and can be --

Tresna guztiz eramangarria da,

eta ...posible dela

(Applause)

(Txaloak)

(Applause ends)

So, one important difference is that it's totally mobile.

Hortaz alde nabarmena da guztiz mugikorra dela.

Another even more important difference is that in mass production,

Beste desberdintasun are nabarmenagoa da, masiboki ekoiztuz gero,

this would not cost more tomorrow than today's cell phones

ez lukeela kosta behar etorkizunean gaurko telefono mugikorrak kostatzen direna baino gehiago

and would actually not sort of be a bigger packaging --

eta ez lukeela tamaina handiagoa izango,

could look a lot more stylish

lepoaren inguruan daramadan bertsio honek baino itxura

than this version that I'm wearing around my neck.

txukunagoa izango lukeela.

Baina, zuetako batzuk

But other than letting some of you live out your fantasy

Tom Cruise "Minority Report"en bezain bikain agertzeko fantasia bizi izatea ahalbidetzeko balio izan dezakeelako baino areago

of looking as cool as Tom Cruise in "Minority Report,"

tresna honek liluratzen bagaitu da,

the reason why we're really excited about this device

benetan jardun dezakeelako aurrean duzun edozeri buruz

is that it really can act as one of these sixth-sense devices

that gives you relevant information about whatever is in front of you.

informazio esanguratsua ematen dizuten

seigarren zentzumenezko tresna horien moduan.

Horrela, hemen ikusten dugu Pranav supermerkatura doala

So we see Pranav here going into the supermarket

and he's shopping for some paper towels.

eta paperezko xukaderak erosten dituela.

And, as he picks up a product,

Eta, produktu bat hartzen duelarik, sistemak jakin dezakeela

the system can recognize the product that he's picking up,

hark zer produktu hartu duen,

using either image recognition or marker technology,

irudien ezagutza nahiz markatzaileen teknologia erabiliz,

and give him the green light or an orange light.

eta argi berdea edo argi laranja erakusten diola.

He can ask for additional information.

Informazio gehigarria eska dezake.

So this particular choice here

Beraz aukera jakin hori

is a particularly good choice, given his personal criteria.

oso aukera ona da, bere irizpide pertsonalak kontuan izanda.

Some of you may want the toilet paper with the most bleach in it

Zuetako batzuek paperezko xukaderak ahalik eta zurienak nahiko dituzue eta ez

rather than the most ecologically responsible choice.

ekologikoenak

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

If he picks up a book in the bookstore, he can get an Amazon rating --

Liburu-denda batean liburu bat hartzen badu,

Amazonen prezioa lor dezake.

it gets projected right on the cover of the book.

Liburuaren azalean proiektaturik ikusiko du.

Juanen liburua da, gure aurreko hizlariarena,

This is Juan's book, our previous speaker,

which gets a great rating, by the way, at Amazon.

oso prezio ona duena, jakina, Amazonen.

And so, Pranav turns the page of the book

Eta Pranav-ek liburuaren orrialdea pasatzen du eta

and can then see additional information about the book --

liburuari buruzko informazio gehigarria ikus dezake --

reader comments, maybe sort of information by his favorite critic, etc.

irakurleen iruzkinak, agian gogokoena duen kritikariaren informazioa, etab.

If he turns to a particular page,

Orrialde jakin batera joaten bada

he finds an annotation by maybe an expert or a friend of ours

informazio gehigarria eskaintzen dion

that gives him a little bit of additional information

aditu baten oharra aurkituko du

orrialde jakin horretan dagoen edozer gauzaz.

about whatever is on that particular page.

Egunkaria irakurtzen duenean --

Reading the newspaper -- it never has to be outdated.

inoiz ez da zaharkiturik geratuko.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

You can get video annotations of the events that you're reading about.

Irakurtzen ari zaren albisteari buruzko bideoak lor ditzakezu.

You can get the latest sports scores, etc.

Lor ditzakezu kiroletako azken emaitzak, etab.

Horrek eztabaida gehiago sor dezake.

This is a more controversial one.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

As you interact with someone at TED,

TEDen norbaitekin interakzioan ari zarelarik,

maybe you can see a word cloud of the tags,

agian ikusi ahal izango dituzu tag-en hitz-hodei bat, alegia,

the words that are associated with that person

pertsona horri loturik

in their blog and personal web pages.

bere blogean eta web orri pertsonaletan dauden hitzak.

In this case, the student is interested in cameras, etc.

Kasu honetan, ikaslea kameretan, etab. dago interesatua.

On your way to the airport,

Aireportura zoazela,

if you pick up your boarding pass, it can tell you that your flight is delayed,

zure hegaldiko txartela hartzen baduzu, esan ahal izango dizu zure hegaldia atzeratu egin dela,

that the gate has changed, etc.

atea aldatu dela, etab.

And, if you need to know what the current time is,

Eta, jakin behar baduzu une horretan zer ordu den,

it's as simple as drawing a watch --

zure eskumuturrean erloju bat marraztea bezain gauza erraza da.

(Laughter)

(Barreak)

(Applause)

(Txaloak)

on your arm.

(Txaloak)

Beraz, hortxe gaude oraindainokoan

So that's where we're at so far in developing this sixth sense

aurkitzen ditugun gauzei buruz informazio esanguratsu hori guztia eskuratzeko aukera

that would give us seamless access to all this relevant information

emango ligukeen seigarren

about the things that we may come across.

zentzumenaren garapenean.

My student Pranav, who's really, like I said, the genius behind this.

Nire ikasle Pranav, benetakoa dena, esan dudan bezala, da horren atzean dagoen jenioa.

(Txaloak)

(Applause and cheering)

(Applause ends)

He does deserve a lot of applause,

Txalo asko behar ditu

because I don't think he's slept much in the last three months, actually.

zeren ez dut uste lo askorik egin duenik azken hiru hilabeteotan.

And his girlfriend is probably not very happy about him either.

Eta bere neska laguna ere ez da izango berarekin oso pozik.

But it's not perfect yet, it's very much a work in progress.

Baina hori ez da perfektua oraindik, lan handia egiten ari gara.

And who knows, maybe in another 10 years

Eta, nork daki, beste 10 urte beharko ditugu

we'll be here with the ultimate sixth sense brain implant.

seigarren zentzunenaren garuneko inplantearekin hemen egon gaitezen.

Thank you.

Eskerrik asko

(Applause)

(Txaloak)