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Lip-Reading Mobile Phones Will Be Great For Phone Six

12:20PM March 6, 2010 | Brian Barrett

German researchers are working on mobile phone technology that would convert silent mouth movements into speech. It’s an ingenious way to have a noiseless conversation, but if they don’t get it right there could be some unfortunate mix-ups. More »


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Air Guitar Hero Lets You Shred Sans Plastic Guitars

12:48AM October 28, 2009 | Adam Frucci

Now this is cool. Using a standard electromyograph attached to the forearm, the geeks at Microsoft’s Muscle-Computer Interface group set up Guitar Hero to react to the position and pressure of all five fingers. More »