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" When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other. "

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" I have always been interested in exploring how we can leverage our knowledge about everyday objects, and how we use them, in order to interact with our digital world. "

Pranav Mistry

Digital

Exploring

World

" Did you know that da Vinci was a painter, polymath, engineer, architect, biologist, and writer all rolled into one? He drew sketches of helicopters at a time when they weren't even invented! "

Pranav Mistry

Know

Time

" I'm not a very big fan of science fiction. I think that I'm a very big fan of living in the physical world. "

" I think that integrating information to everyday objects will not only help us to get rid of the digital divide, the gap between these two worlds, but will also help us, in some way, to stay human, to be more connected to our physical world. "

" One of my ongoing projects is to expand third-eye technology whereby two people can watch two different things on a screen or type in two different languages on the same surface - all they have to do is wear a pair of hi-tech glass spectacles. "

" For true augmented reality, the display would have to dynamically focus, which would require additional hardware on the glasses to read your eye. "

" 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. "

" Whatever science fiction movies we watch now, we can make the technology real in two days. What we can do is not important. What we should do is more important. "

" Our time is a time for crossing boundaries. "

" My lab is like a fantasy world - it is more like a 'James Bond' movie! "

Pranav Mistry

Bond

Fantasy

" Digital world is changing its home, and I am in search of an evolution that exists beyond the digital world. "

Pranav Mistry

Home

" Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal. "

" What we strive for is how we can provide the best performance and best design, whatever the customers want. "

" I can proudly say Galaxy Gear is a design statement, an engineering marvel, and something that really redefines tomorrow. "

" There is no link between our digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. "

" Exposure to fields like design to technology and from art to psychology gave me a quite nice/interesting viewpoint to the world. "

Pranav Mistry

World

Technology

" We've evolved over millions of years to sense the world around us. We use our five natural senses to perceive information. But the huge amount of information mankind has accumulated and stored online cannot be perceived by these senses. "

" I have poor people skills, and I cannot become a minister. "

" In computing, everything happens inside this rectangular screen. I want to get the pixels out, paint the world, and allow us to interact with it. "

" The real world is not in one direction. "

" I'm sure that the ideas being incubated at places like Startup Village today will form the core of the technologies of tomorrow. "

" Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind. "

" My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity. "

" We are looking for an era where computing will actually merge with the physical world. "

" It's about time we stopped asking what the computer can do for us and instead ask ourselves what we can do for the computer. "

Pranav Mistry

Asking

Ask

" I get bored after I invent something because I hate talking about it every time. "

" There are endless consumer applications, but what excites me is how this can help people. A man who cannot speak communicates with sign language, but the average person doesn't know that language. SixthSense, if equipped with speakers, can recognize the gestures and form the words - it will speak for him. "

" I am not interesting in making money. I go to the most expensive restaurant in Boston to have dinner. It is where billionaires come to eat. Even if I become richer, I will still have to go there to eat. After some time, money doesn't make a difference. "

" With Gear, you're able to make calls and receive calls without ever taking your phone out of your pocket. "

" As far as solving India's problems with technology is concerned, I think there are some wrong assumptions in making computing work at the grassroots. We need to go beyond the notion of technology being all about computers. "