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Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video, and creates an easily searchable database of the recorded footage. Designed to function as a high-tech memory aid, these “Cyber Goggles” promise to make the act of losing your keys a thing of the past, according to head researcher professor Tatsuya Harada.

From spacing montreal's article:

London’s Metropolitian Police are looking into taking its use to an even higher level by using video software — designed by a firm called “OmniPerception” — that can pick out suspects based on what they are wearing. The technology can “see” specific brands in a crowd and is currently used to identify company logos in TV broadcasts of sporting events to check the prominence of brand images.

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October 11, 2007
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SICKNESS, "ABSURD" DOJ PROSECUTION FORCE SCIENTIST TO PLEAD IN
PRECEDENT-SETTING CASE
Scientist's Wife and Daughter Comment on Case

Buffalo, NY - Today in Federal District Court, Dr. Robert Ferrell,
Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate
School of Public Health, under tremendous pressure, pled guilty to
lesser charges rather than facing a prolonged trial for federal
charges of "mail fraud" and "wire fraud" in a surreal post-PATRIOT

There is an open wireless access point at Dieu du Ciel !! OMGPONIES!!11
Combined with their incredible beer, it should generate equally incredible blog posts!! ... or not... .o00o0ooo.

See Bruce Schneier's blog post on the topic and an article on Heise about it.

Hitachi has an implementation of it in their finger vein money technology:
"On July 24, Hitachi announced the development of a biometric cardless credit payment system, called “finger vein money,” which allows shoppers to pay for purchases using only their fingertips."

On July 19, electronics giant NEC announced it has developed the world’s first automated border control system that uses facial recognition technology capable of identifying people inside their automobiles. The system is already in operation at checkpoints on the Hong Kong - Shenzhen border.

Read more at Pink Tentacle

See this Reuters story.. "Ooops sorry! Damn subcontractors, we can't control everything you know..". Yeah. Pretty convenient isn't it.

Here's a couple of nice street art pictures found on americansarebrainwashed.com:

See this CNN report on a surveillance camera network coming to NYC.

In Montreal, the number of surveillance cameras keep growing as the city deploys them strategically on busy streets of the entertainment districts to monitor bar fights and acts of vandalism. Hopefully, no terrorist incident happened here yet, so theres no excuse to be used to deploy such a surveillance network. Still, I'm dreaming about an IR-emitter covered jacket to blank out a whole street of cameras.

over and out.

"Maine has become the first state in the union to pass legislation on net neutrality. The resolution, LD 1675, recognizes the importance of “full, fair and non-discriminatory access to the Internet” and instructs the Public Advocate to study what can be done to protect the rights of Maine internet users."

cheers!

source: LawBean

Another shock and awe:

"NBC/Universal general counsel Rick Cotton suggests that society wastes entirely too much money policing crimes like burglary, fraud, and bank-robbing, when it should be doing something about piracy instead."

"Our law enforcement resources are seriously misaligned," Cotton said. "If you add up all the various kinds of property crimes in this country, everything from theft, to fraud, to burglary, bank-robbing, all of it, it costs the country $16 billion a year. But intellectual property crime runs to hundreds of billions [of dollars] a year." Cotton's comments come in Paul Stweeting's report on Hollywood's latest shenanigans on Capitol Hill."

June 14, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

EXXON PROPOSES BURNING HUMANITY FOR FUEL IF CLIMATE CALAMITY HITS
Conference organizer fails to have Yes Men arrested

Text of speech, photos, video: http://www.vivoleum.com/event/
GO-EXPO statement: http://newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/June2007/14/c5086.html
Press conference before this event, Friday, Calgary: http://arusha.org/event/7214
Contact: mailto:fuel@theyesmen.org
More links at end of release.

Imposters posing as ExxonMobil and National Petroleum Council (NPC)
representatives delivered an outrageous keynote speech to 300 oilmen
at GO-EXPO, Canada's largest oil conference, held at Stampede Park in
Calgary, Alberta, today.

The speech was billed beforehand by the GO-EXPO organizers as the

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08:13 < bgm> Violets are #0000FF
08:13 < bgm> All my encryptions
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nb: bgm is not the author of this poem, but merely citing it from an undisclosed sourcefrom slashdot. I am inviting all of you to do the same ;)

Found a better one here (via boingboing).

ZERO AND HER ORIGIN

Zero, the number said to be discovered
Nine times by ancient magicians, was
Found again by a mysterious order of
Nine modern alchemists, who built
One machine after another, until finally

Mind Children author Hans Moravec goes on to posit that what we need to "take advantage" of human mobility and computer calculating power is a "high-tech" wardrobe that will eventually lead to the conscious computer. Note the move from a cyborg concept that could allow the human to explore new ways of being, to a computer creature that simply replace the human being as the more perfect citizen of the police state. These are the defense department and company-sponsored thinkers at the frontline of robotics who, in their enthusiasm for creating robot servants to do our bidding, utterly fail to encompass the future of human possibility that sees the cyborg as an end, not a means by which humanity can be bypassed or enslaved.

Cyborg, Steve Mann, page 50

Ok! Ok! I'm a bit late on this one... But here are my videos and impressions of a few of Julius Popp's robots that we're recently displayed at Oboro gallery. I took a few pictures, but there are some nice ones on Julius Popp's website, so there's not much point posting them here.