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Japanese Vending Machine Makes a Face in Your Cappuccino
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If there’s one thing that’s for certain, it’s that the Japanese love their wacky vending machines. Whether they’re doling out bananas, crabs or making ice cream sundaes, they always seem to have a trick up their sleeves. But this machine just makes hot beverages like tea and coffee. So what’s… |
December 20th, 2011
Mask-Bot: the Face-shifting Robot of Your Nightmares
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Most humanoid robots either have a silly face, or a cold emotionless one and certainly most only have that one face. How about a robot that can change faces whenever it wants? I’m talking creepy 3D faces that make them look human. It has arrived.… |
November 10th, 2011
Griffin Faces Case Gives Your iPod Touch Extra FaceTime
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This cute case from Griffin is called the Faces case. The name says it all. It allows you to mix and match eyes and mouth tiles in the case to create your own unique face.… |
October 16th, 2011
Eye Slack Haruka Wants to Vibrate Your Eye Bags Away
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My mother can always tell how many hours I slept the previous night based on the size of the bags under my eyes. When deadlines are running tight and things are getting crazy hectic I work, I sometimes pull all-nights, and the second thing to suffer (since the first one… |
October 13th, 2011
Does Your Plug Have A Face?
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Okay, so the title of this post is actually a play on words on one of PETA’s slogans for veganism that goes “Does your food have a face?”… But this post isn’t going to be about your eating habits or health; rather, it’s going to be about this neat concept |
September 30th, 2011
ETRO Robot Gives You an LED Wink
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This new model of the ETRO robot comes with an animated LED faceplate, allowing it to fake simple emotions. The ETRO ‘bot was exhibited at the Daejon National Science Museum where it interacted with visitors. ETRO responded to people using simple phrases and changing its pixelated facial expressions, sort of… |
August 26th, 2011
Emotigraph Has Its Many Moods
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Do you have mood swings? Then you owe it to the next person about to cross the threshold into your cubicle to make sure they know if you’re happy, sad, or going to chew their head off for taking to you. Here’s a fun invention which you can use to… |
August 14th, 2011
Imhotep Blows into New Brunswick, Canada
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I’ve spent a fair share of my afternoons lying down on the grass and just staring at the clouds as they move gently across the sky, prodded along by the occasional breeze.… |
August 7th, 2011
Trimensional iPhone App Scans Your Face in 3D, Then Lets You Print Your Ugly Mug
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I’ve heard plenty about 3D printing, but this is probably the first iPhone app that will scan your face in 3D and allow you to render a 3D model of your face. It’s kind of amazing what the iPhone can do, isn’t it? The app is from Trimensional and it… |
April 15th, 2011
Recognizr Puts Facial Recognition on Android Phones
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Recognizr is an app for the Android platform which allows you to simply snap a picture and automatically pair up the face with publicly-available data and information stored on your phone. Created by the guys at The Astonishing Tribe (or tat for short) and leveraging Polar Rose’s facial recognition platform,… |
February 24th, 2010
