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Next-gen PlayStation to sense user emotions
News Sony is planning to enable future versions of its PlayStation gaming console to recognise user gestures and even emotions, according to an executive. Harrison said Sony researchers are developing facial-expression-recognition software which...
[December 1, 2003, 13:30]
Next-gen PlayStation to sense user emotions
Talkback Motion sensing is a step in the right direction. This is a hot topic because bendable OLEDs will be available soon. That means IMAX-like theaters for home use. With a three-dimensional screen like that, motion sensing has to replace controllers.
[December 4, 2003, 0:15]
Next-gen PlayStation to sense user emotions
Talkback Gosh what nonsense. Sony men speculate vacantly about what they might be able to do several years in the future. This isn't a story!
[December 2, 2003, 15:59]
Schneier: Security vendors exploiting user emotions
News Linux.conf.au kicked off its main proceedings in Melbourne on Wednesday morning with a stark message from security guru Bruce Schneier: "When security companies give you cost justifications, they're complete bullshit.
[January 30, 2008, 11:02]
Biometrics technology that can read emotions
News The Fraunhofer Institute's intelligent-systems manager, Christian Küblbeck, gives a demonstration of technology that can read a face and gauge whether a person is happy, sad, or angry. Its applications include judging reactions to advertising.
[March 7, 2008, 14:43]
Software patent directive adopted
Talkback Marketing directors live off the grabbing of ideas and emotions we all have and putting some kind of brand close to them and leveraging that brand's mediatic power to bombard us back with their own commercially bent view of our common ideas and...
[March 7, 2005, 17:07]
Q&A: The science behind 'friendly fridges'
News In this way, subjects were forced to report their emotions on a single dimension at one time. This new system will allow software and machines to mimic human emotions, creating devices such as "friendly fridges" or "angry robots".
[July 12, 2002, 8:16]
SkyeText - Fun Rich Graphic Text/SMS Messaging - S60V3
Downloads Easy to use: SkyeText will automatically change all regular SMS text emotions received and sent to a rich graphic format. All emoticons used by A will be shown as traditional SMS emotions e.g. SkyeText - WHAT DOES IT DO?
[April 25, 2009, 8:00]
Smart chips get under our skin Pt II
News The idea that human emotions can be collected and stored as data is unappealing to many, reducing as it does the complexities of our emotional responses to a series of electrical impulses (which actually is not that far removed from the...
[January 23, 2001, 14:09]
iStress
Downloads iStress is designed to provide all modes of stress reduction including monitoring, relaxation, positive thinking, humor, and developing an encouraging attitude toward those daily close encounters of the aggravating kind that we call stress.iStress...
[March 19, 2009, 4:45]
Can a human love a robot?
News The hypothetical nature of sentience debates leads experts such as Dr Murray Shanahan, senior lecturer in electrical engineering at Imperial College, to completely reject the possibility of artificial pets ever possessing human emotions or responses.
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Anthrax panic bumps up Web traffic
News The Web is dynamic and reflective of people's emotions," said Allen Weiner, vice president and principal analyst at Nielsen/NetRatings. The rise in traffic not only serves as a barometer of people's emotions in recent weeks but also highlights the...
[October 22, 2001, 10:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The researchers claim that all emotions are composed of various mixes of these fundamental psychic notes, although I suspect that most emotions caused by being made to look like a toadstool would lack a couple of those components.
[August 27, 2004, 17:20]
New Technology Focus: Computers that know you're upset!
News The Affective Computing Department at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Mass.is trying to use computers to detect people's emotions. Not surprisingly, the emotions the researchers are looking for are usually anger and frustration.
[July 28, 1998, 6:33]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So it’s with mixed emotions that we watch the story spread out across online news and thence into the papers and the broadcast media. Those emotions are doubly mixed when certain broadcasters choose to interview journos from other publishing houses...
[July 29, 2005, 18:30]
'Trafficking in human life' - Baby for sale on the Internet
News He added: "Yes child pornography is bad, yes, illegal adoption on the Internet is bad, but we must not let our emotions be the reason to pass poorly thought out laws regarding the Internet. Conversely Neil McGhee, customer director at Internet...
[March 31, 1999, 14:34]
The Hidden Power of Thought Vibration - self help ebook
Downloads Your thoughts control your emotions and your emotions control your actions. The Hidden Power of Thought Vibration Suppose You Could Read this ebook and Learn the Secrets to Complete and Total Mind Power?
[July 21, 2004, 8:00]
Merger may hinge on Compaq chief's journal
News In general, attorneys and their trainers recommend that senior executives refrain from writing or publicly stating negative, definitive emotions precisely because they could be subpoenaed or leaked to third parties -- and misconstrued by opposing...
[April 24, 2002, 13:59]
jMSN Pro
Downloads Download and install language package.New feature in jMSN Pro 1.1.0:Change register method to use 15-digit IMEI Add Swedish UI (Thank to Rickard Nyberg for translation)Add Dutch UI (Thank to Jeremy Tjon for translation)Improve login speed and...
[December 17, 2003, 7:00]
My friend, the robot
News It's not something that's going to evoke negative or hostile emotions. It's nearly impossible not to have these emotions as you observe Roomba. Future robots might not look like C-3PO of "Star Wars" fame or Rosie on "The Jetsons", but they are...
[May 26, 2006, 12:40]
