Quotes from Pranav Mistry

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

Many of my projects are inspired by Indian mythology. We have read that in the ancient times, people could expand their body parts, extend arms - all of that reads like a dream. But all this can be done using technology based on simple solutions.

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.

Our research centres are everywhere, in India, China, Turkey, Japan, and we all work as a team all the time.

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.

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.

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 have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

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

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

The digital world has power because it has dynamic information, but it's important that we stay human instead of being another machine sitting in front of a machine.

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.

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.

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

Our time is a time for crossing boundaries.

I love to see technology from a design perspective and vice versa. I am a 'Desigineer.'

Unlike other children, I did not get a branded video game. Mine was an open circuit that even buzzed.

We need to stop talking and start acting, and I am more than eager to be part of that change.

For me, how an appliance looks is as important as how efficiently it works.

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

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