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 If you believe this video — and that’s a big if — the era of thought-controlled phones has begun. A pair of hobbyist hackers claim to have taken Siri, the iPhone 4S feature that obeys voice commands, and turned it into an app that obeys brainwave patterns.
“It works! It really works! It’s so freaking amazing,” Josh Evans and Ollie Hayward announced Tuesday on the blog they created to chronicle what they call “Project Black Mirror.”
In the accompanying YouTube video, Evans wears EEG pads on his forehead and squints in concentration. A circuit board attached to an iPhone on the table beeps shortly later, and a mechanical voice says “calling Graham,” the third member of the project, whose phone then rings.
The hackers explain that they used the EEG pads to record the “signature brain patterns” of 25 Siri-based commands. By pairing the signatures with the commands, they effectively create a brain pattern-to-voice dictionary.
 Rockstar Games has finally released the trailer for Grand Theft Auto V, an open-world, crime-based video game. The trailer reveals all kinds of juicy details about the upcoming sure-to-be blockbuster game.
GTA V is the latest game in the GTA series, which often follow the rise of a lowly criminal to the status of mob or gang boss. Most of the game is centered around driving missions with frequent breaks for over-the-shoulder shooting action. The trailer suggests that GTA V won’t drift too far from this formula.
 Do cell phones cause brain cancer?
A recent largest study conducted over entire adult population of 350,000 people more than a decade time in Denmark shows that there is no link between the brain cancer and the use of cellphones.
The authors reported its finding to CBS news,”What did they find? Overall, nearly 11,000 Danes developed central nervous system tumors during the 18-year period. But when researchers analysed the cancer cases based on whether or not the person was a cell phone user, there was no significant difference between users and non-users.”
 Though it is not clear when iPhone 5 will be released, we have been hearing all kinds of rumours about the phone and not a single day goes without an irrelevant rumors that pass by.
However, a little birdie revealed that the Apple’s iPhone 5 could be thinner and wider than iPhone 4. this is however based on the photos that were published on the Italian blog MacityNet. The photos revealed not the iPhone, but the purported iPhone 5 case. It may not be true that Apple is really considering increasing iPhone’s size from what it is right now.
 Google’s +1 button has been updated to allow users to share webpages they like by pressing the button
Google continues to update the functionality of Google+ with the news that social networking users can now share webpages they like by clicking the now ubiquitous Google +1 button.
This Google +1 button exists on more than 1 million websites and gets more than 4 billion daily views, double from last month.
The +1 button is Google’s version of Facebook’s Like button. In June, Google made the tool available to publishers, who can add it to their websites with a few lines of code. However, the +1 button had little purpose because it posed no connective tissue to other web services.
 A team of scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, USA, has managed to entangle ions using microwave fields for the first time. According to their publication in the journal Nature (“Microwave quantum logic gates for trapped ions”), the team has implemented a method that could be important for the realization of an integrated quantum computer with trapped ions.
Christian Ospelkaus, professor within the Cluster of Excellence QUEST (Centre for Quantum Engineering and Space-Time Research) at Leibniz Universität Hannover and Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig since December 2010, has realized the experiment together with colleagues at NIST.
 After upgrading to Skype 5.5, and if a Skype users choose the Compact View option instead of Default View, a window titled Skype Home will automatically open and appear every time Skype program is starting or on computer reboot. The additional “Skype Home” window effectively defeat the purpose of Compact View, where users who supposed to get a smaller Skype main window now is getting two windows instead of one.
To make matter worse, Skype does not provide an option to disable or stop Skype Home screen from autostart.
As a workaround, Andrew Worcester wrote a tiny program that taking care of any extra Skype Home window. The “Kill Skype Home” app is designed to start with Windows. It will search any any open windows named “Skype Home”, and when found, to silently kill and close the window.
 You might have heard of the new product creating the buzz in the market by Toshiba. It the Toshiba Qosmio F755 3D which is glasses free 3D latop. It is described as “the world’s first laptop capable of displaying glasses-free 3D and 2D content at the same time on one screen.”
“The Qosmio F755 3D laptop is not just a breakthrough in mobile entertainment, but a great example of Toshiba’s ongoing commitment to turning technology innovation into real, usable products,” said Carl Pinto, vice president of product development, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Digital Products Division. “We are excited to bring this cutting-edge technology to consumers, as there’s really nothing like it. The unique capabilities of the laptop’s 3D display make enjoying 3D content both convenient and hassle-free. It’s like nothing you’ve ever seen before.”
 Increasing research on social media’s effects on human interaction has revealed the development of antisocial behavior, narcissism and a slew of other character flaws and negative by-products.
Overdosing on Facebook may lead to the development of such psychological disorders in teens, according to a recent study conducted by Larry Rosen, a professor of psychology at California State University.
From affecting their grades to their obsessive behavior of not letting go of their laptop or their possessiveness over their fancy Facebook accounts, read on to see whats more there is.
 We recently ran across Jeff Somogyi’s article on dealnews.com, “The One Gadget To Rule Them All: 5 Devices that Smartphones Have Replaced,” and it got us thinking about how smartphones have revolutionized the fashion industry.
As Somogyi points out, smartphones now act as:
- Point and shoot cameras
- MP3 players
- GPS systems
- Digital video cameras
- Handheld video game systems
- – and of course, phones.
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November 12th, 2011 |
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