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Eavesdropping By Reading Brainwaves Is Feasible

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9:00AM February 1, 2012 | Alex Kidman

Scientists don’t get their due. After all, they can do almost anything. Except, you know, eavesdrop on our conversations by reading our brainwaves. Oh… wait. Apparently, now, they can. More »


Science

This Gross Robotic Mouth Is Like A Singing Fleshlight

3:40AM July 14, 2011 | Kwame Opam

This is horrifying. Professor Hideyuki Sawada of Kagawa University demonstrated this rubbery nightmare today that can imitate human speech. It’s only a matter of time before someone tries to have sex with it. More »


Software

Locking Down Your Facebook Account Like James Bond

12:00PM November 18, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

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If you ever want to steal something in spy movies, you need to tear out somebody’s eyeball or fake their voice. AT&T Safe will bring that same level of security to your online accounts with an iPhone app. More »


Gaming

Xbox Kinect Review: It’s A Brand New Console

3:00PM November 4, 2010 | Jason Chen

Microsoft’s motion gaming peripheral is, if executed correctly, quite possibly the future of gaming. It might even be the future of WIndows 8 and computers everywhere. But how much fun is playing with Kinect right now? More »


Science

Do Different Languages Equal Different Realities?

1:59AM August 28, 2010 | Sam Biddle

We usually assume words are just a way of expressing ideas already in our heads. But what if it’s the other way around? Some linguists say the languages we speak fundamentally alter the way we think and even perceive reality. More »


Artificial Intelligence On Its Way To Replacing Humans

11:00AM June 28, 2010 | Casey Chan

We’ve all seen the future of computing in movies. We talk to Hal and Jarvis and they’re smart enough to recognise what we want them to do. Today’s computers are learning to be like that, just not as cool. Yet More »


Online

YouTube Gets Automatic Captioning For All Videos

5:41AM March 5, 2010 | Jason Chen

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Today, YouTube is rolling out automatic captioning for all videos uploaded to the service, using Google’s speech recognition service. You can see a demo in the video above. More »


Gadgets

Amazon Caves to Snippy Authors: Kindle’s Text-to-Voice Feature Now Optional

10:00AM March 1, 2009 | Gizmodo US Edition

We reported the Author’s Guild’s litigious anger about the Kindle 2′s text-to-voice feature, claiming it violates audio book copyrights. It’s an arguable position, but Amazon has gone ahead and caved to the literate man.

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Toshiba’s TLP-X200U Projector Is the First To Talk, For Some Reason

8:05PM November 4, 2008 | Kit Eaton

This may not be as small as yesterday’s picoprojector, but Toshiba’s TLP-X200U projector is still portable, and touted as being the world’s first with talking guidance. Apparently it’s designed to make the thing easier to use, and it also talks you through maintenance procedures, with the aim of making it all work better for you, and thus saving you money in the long run. Elsewise it’s got 3LCD tech, 1024 x 768-pixels resolution, 3000 ANSI lumen brightness and a 600:1 contrast ratio, and it’s wired and wireless LAN capable. It may indeed be “slim, light and compact” and have that voice function, but for an MSRP of $US1,740 I’d expect it to have an LCARS touchpanel and Majel Barrett’s dulcet digital tones. [I4U]

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AT&T Bringing (a Tiny, Frustrating Bit Of) Speech Recognition to the iPhone, Others

6:10AM July 24, 2008 | Gizmodo US Edition

newVideoPlayer("/speechmashup.flv", 506, 282,""); AT&T’s Speech Mashups is a web-based service that will bring voice-activated search to the iPhone, as well as other Edge and 3G handsets. Instead of managing speech recognition on the actual handset, Speech Mashups sends the audio sample to the server, processes it and sends back a text transcription or command to your phone. Unfortunately for iPhone owners, this does not mean voice dialing or speech-to-text app support. Not at all.

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