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• Powers of invisibility

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:26 pm

  Tags: Vision, Recognition

  at how accurate my people recognition was without, the benefit of a good view or prior to voice confirmation. It was a combination of different factors such as general shape, pattern of movement or gestures that no doubt assisted me.Just after ten I feel ruthless. I throw out three pairs of malfunctioning kitchen scissors. [translation = it

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• Multitasking Robots: Multiple Speech Recognition To Make Sex Dolls More Fun

  Published: July 29, 2007, 10:45 am

  Tags: Honda Research Institute Japan, Kyoto University, Multiple Speech Recognition, Multitasking Robots, Robot Audition Project, Robovie R2

  developed an advanced speech recognition technology that has the capability to understand multiple, unique speech inputs, whilst computing their meaning independently. The efforts of the team are coming to fruition now, following years of research in the field. They have been able to integrate the multiple speech recognition with enhanced

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• Talking SUV: Tell Your Car What to Play, Read With Ford Sync

  Published: July 30, 2007, 5:17 am

  Tags: Bluetooth, Car, Cell, Mp3, Phone, Player, Recognition, Talking Suv, Voice

  car computer with a speech recognition system. You will be able to climb into your SUV and say, 'Play artist Cliff Richards', and the annoying old timer will start blaring out of your speakers. It can even read out your text messages for you in an old-skool synthesised voice, which even understands lazy abbreviations like GR8. Jump to see it in

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• Kids Think Food Tastes Better With McDonald's Name

  Published: August 7, 2007, 6:45 pm

  Tags: Branding Recognition, Children, Fast Food Places, Kids, Mcdonald S, Taste Test

  I just found out about this fascinating study led by Dr. Thomas Robinson, the director of the Center for Healthy Weight at Packard Children's Hospital and associate professor of pediatrics and of medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. Talk about serious credentials. He had 63 children, ages 3 and 5, sample five foods: chicken

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• EPOS Technologies' digital pen records your writing

  Published: August 9, 2007, 11:28 am

  Tags: Digital Pen, Digitalpen, Epos, Handwriting, Handwriting Recognition, Handwritingrecognition, Stylus, Usb Flash Drive, Usbflashdrive

  Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Have you ever been sitting around and suddenly thought of the cure for cancer, or figured out how to build the world's largest hamburger, but you didn't have any way to get your idea down? Sure, you could write it on a piece of paper, but what if that paper got ripped, or blown away by a strong gust of wind? Well

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• Drug kingpin IDed using advanced voice identification

  Published: August 13, 2007, 10:21 am

  Tags: Columbia, Drugs, Identification, Voice Recognition, Voicerecognition

  Misc. GadgetsAdvanced voice recognition technology busted one Juan Carlos Ramirez Abadia recently, a drug kingpin who had drastic plastic surgery in a failed attempt to mask his true identity. Because of his plastic surgery, Brazilian Police were unable to gain positive identification required for an arrest warrant. Instead, Colombian officials

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• Speech Recognition: Create speakable Safari bookmarks

  Published: August 16, 2007, 9:00 am

  Tags: Bookmarks, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Safari, Speech Recognition

  how you can use speech recognition to launch bookmarks in Safari. I've never been one to talk at my computer, but I think speech recognition definitely has its uses. The guide over at Macworld is basically a stripped down version of Adam's guide to working with speech recognition in Firefox and Photoshop. Linux and Windows users, don't

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• Grundig's DigtaSonicMic, a high-end USB dictaphone

  Published: August 17, 2007, 5:26 am

  Tags: Dictation, Digtasonicmic, Grundig, Microphone, Voice Recognition, Voicerecognition

  Filed under: Portable Audio We're not certain who still uses dictation machines -- isn't illegal to not know how to type? -- but Grundig's ready to drag you into the future with its DigtaSonicMic, which features USB sound in / out as well as trackpoint mouse control so you can manipulate files on your machine as you walk around the room

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• Azentek stocking DiMora's $2 million ride with in-car electronics

  Published: August 22, 2007, 8:02 am

  Tags: Atlas, Azentek, Dimora Motorcar, Dimoramotorcar, Head Unit, Headunit, In Car, In Dash, Natalia Sls 2, Nataliasls2, Voice Recognition, Voicerecognition

  units" which boast voice recognition, FM / XM Radio / Sirius / HD Radio, Bluetooth, CD / MP3 / WMA / DVD support, GPS navigation, VoIP / cellphone integration, "over a terabyte" of storage, and Windows Vista for good measure. Additionally, users will be able to interface with the machines via touchscreen, keyboard / mouse, a handset, USB,

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• Reminders: Schedule PingMe Reminders with Jott

  Published: August 28, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Email, Productivity, Reminders, Sms, Time Savers, Voice Recognition, Voicemail

  Schedule reminders on previously mentioned SMS reminder service PingMe with a phone call to the voice-to-text service, Jott. Once you set it up, it works like this: You call Jott's toll free number and they say "Who'd you want to Jott?"... You say "GoPingMe"... Jott says "BEEP"... You say "2 days, call and wish mom a happy birthday" From

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• 5 Ways To Reward Your Commenters

  Published: July 27, 2007, 1:53 pm

  Tags: Adsense, Affiliate, Blog, Blogging, Commenters, Comments, Eric Giguere, Google, Recognition, Revenue Sharing, Rewards, Seo, Wordpress

  1. Praise and Public Recognition The best way to let commenters know you appreciate them is to tell them! This can be done in various ways: Sending them an email. Leaving comments in reply to their comments. Writing a post about your top commenter(s). Using plugins like Top Commenters or Show Top Commentators. I definitely do

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• Speecys shows of SPC-101C face-recognizing robot

  Published: August 31, 2007, 12:10 pm

  Tags: Face Recognition, Facerecognition, Mi Rai Rt, Robot, Spc 101c, Speecys

  Filed under: Robots After letting its MI-RAI-RT (a.k.a SPC-101) robot wander around aimlessly for a while, Speecys has now finally decided to let the bot have a look at the world, adding a cyclops-style camera to its new SPC-101C model. That'll apparently not only let it recognize faces, but expressions as well (we presume that's what's going on

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• Competition with prizes for Free Software projects

  Published: August 2, 2007, 5:13 am

  Tags: Articles, Award Ceremony, Financial Support, Free Software Projects, Innovative Projects, Professional Organisation, Recognition, Software Professional

  a chance of support, recognition and visibility. So don’t hesitate and submit your project today. Full article : http://www.fsfe.org/fellows… by Greve. Articles, award ceremony, financial support, free software projects, innovative projects, professional organisation, recognition, software

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• StreetAdvisor offers coverage offers coverage for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:59 pm

  Tags: Articles, Advertising Opportunities, Member Recognition, Neighbors, New Features, Recognition System, Streetadvisor

  features include a member recognition system, local expert program and StreetAdvisor Billboards, a service that offers the ability to secure exclusive run-of-street advertising opportunities on a per city basis. The site is currently in public beta and offers coverage for the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.

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• Sony's T200 Cybershot Photographs Smiles Automatically

  Published: September 2, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Cameras, Cameras, Clips, Cybershot, Photos, Recognition, Sony

  In addition to a Carl Zeiss 5X zoom lens, 3.5" wide/touchscreen LCD, Sony's Cybershot T200 features a smile sensor that will automagically snag shots when your family and friends are pretending to enjoy your company. In this demonstration, the potential gimmick seems to actually work. Though you'll notice that the sensors have a tough time

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