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.
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Time Line is the new addition on face book which store your complete life story from start to end. It is also capable of uploading of different types of old and new videos and photographs. Time line is completely editable means you can manage any change you need in your personal life story and took around last 12 months for a ready go.
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.
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.
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.”
We recently ran across Jeff Somogyi’s article on dealnews.com, “
In simple terms higher blood pressure or hypertension happens when the blood moves through the arteries (carrying blood from the heart to the different organs of the body) at a pressure above normal. A regular blood pressure would read 140/90 and would vary for diabetics and others. Retaining a standard pressure is paramount to your great wellness and wards away the chances of a heart attack. The blood pressure really should be frequently measured with meter and corrective action in the form of lifestyle changes for long term rewards and medication for immediate lowering of pressure ought to be taken. High blood pressure, when left unchecked, puts you at threat of stroke, kidney failure, heart illness and heart attack.
&T and LG have teamed up to announce a new LG Thril 4G smartphone which is re-branding version of the LG Optimus 3D smartphone.
The Apple Store cut prices resting on three of its five manufacturing facility-refurbished Apple iPad Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi/3G Tablets. Up toward a $50 drop applies. With free shipping, it’s the best agreement we’ve noticed for the majority of these iPad models. Sales tax is added where applicable. This 0.5?-thick tablet weighs 1.5 lbs. plus features an Apple A4 1GHz processor, 9.7? 1024×768 LCD touchscreen screen, 802.11a/n wireless, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, accelerometer, compass, up toward 10 hours of battery life, plus extra. Each carries a 1-year Apple warranty, the equal as new units.
