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	<title>Backup &#38; Beyond (mostly beyond) &#187; SixthSense</title>
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		<title>The future of usability is almost here</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pattie Maes and Pranav Mistry demo SixthSense at TED.
Created at MIT Media Labs, SixthSense could radically change the way we communicate - in the very near future.]]></description>
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<p>Remember Minority Report and the cool way in which Tom Cruise used computers. Or Harry Potter with its video embedded in newspapers?</p>
<p>It&#8217;s here &#8211; and will cost less than $350</p>
<p>We obsess a fair bit about user interfaces &amp; usability. This TED video from MIT&#8217;s Media Labs just blew our mind. Check it out. I promise you&#8217;ll be impressed.</p>
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<p><em>The above post was written by Lakshmanan (Lux) Narayan of Vembu Technologies. Vembu Technologies is a backup software vendor whose product, StoreGrid, powers the <a href="http://www.vembu.com/">online backup</a> services of a large number of service providers across the globe. Besides <a href="http://www.vembu.com/storegrid/online-backup.php">remote backup</a>, StoreGrid is also used for on premise backups of workstations and servers at various companies &amp; universities.</em></p>
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