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Samsung SCH-V960 Optical Joystick: How It Works
Samsung's SCh-V960 may have the first optical joystick available on a phone, but we'll be damned if we can figure out what the hell that means. But we can take a look at Samsung's "fingerprint...
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Asus Z801 Karaoke Phone
Asus' Z801 Karaoke phone could be the coolest phone we've ever seen. Not for the looks, the design, the amount of megapixels, or even a fast data connection, but for its Karaoke feature. When you play...
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SpinVox Winds Your Voicemails into Text For Easy Reading
We had a brief chat with a SpinVox co-founder today and he told us all about this speech-to-text service. SpinVox, when integrated with a cellphone or landline provider, can take your voicemail...
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Oki Japan Bring Iris Scanning to Existing Cellphones
Oki Japan has developed software that brings iris recognition security to existing cellphones. Before now, biometric security has meant either hugely expensive military systems or cheap, novelty...
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Tell Your Car What to Play, Read With Ford Sync
Ford Sync is a new system developed by Ford and Microsoft that aims to fully integrate your MP3 player, cell phone and car computer with a speech recognition system. You will be able to climb into your...
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AVIC-F High-End Navigation Systems from Pioneer Rocks Voice Control
Talking to your gadgets is the first sign of madness, but people who insist on doing it should look at Pioneer's AVIC-F systems. The three models, the AVIC-F700BT, AVIC-F900BT and the AVIC F90BT all...
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Optio V20 from Pentax has 5x Zoom, Smile Recognition and Blink Detection
Six months after Pentax released the Optio V10, the japanese company has upped the stakes with the V20. The slimline point-and-shoot has upped the zoom from 3x to 5x, as well as increasing Digital SR...
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Asus Working on Handwriting-Pad Add-on for Eee PC
While modders are busily adapting the Eee PC for touchscreen capability, it seems that Asus has been working on an official handwriting recognition add-on. Demoed at last weeks Computex show, the Asus...
View ArticleArtificially Intelligent Computers Will Listen And React To You
We've all seen futuristic movies with awesome Hal and Jarvis computers that are smart enough to recognize what we want them to do. They're like people. Today's computers are learning to be like that...
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Google Thinks Facial Recognition Is Very, Very Bad. Except Maybe For Famous...
Former Google CEO—and current Google evangelist—Eric Schmidt made his thoughts on facial recognition very clear yesterday, saying it was "very concerning," and that Google wouldn't dream of a database...
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Motherf*cking Wasps Recognize Each Other By Their Faces
Scientists at the University of Michigan have found something really surprising and remarkable: wasps can recognize each other by looking at their faces. Until know, we thought that only animals like...
View ArticleTurn Any Surface Into a Touch-Sensitive Instrument With a $20 Microphone
My desk is boring. My walls are boring. My windows are boring. I need to liven them up by turning them into musical instruments that detect and recognise my touch. Fortunately, that's cheaper and...
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Wifi Networks Can Now Identify Who You Are Through Walls
Who needs a peep hole when a wifi network will do? Researchers from MIT have developed technology that uses wireless signals to see your silhouette through a wall—and it can even tell you apart from...
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