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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.

I like this image, don't you? The scary glow and all... ;-)
So, people are working on contact lenses display and vision enhancer!

Will we be able to shrink Mr Mann's vision of the eyetap so it can fit directly in the eyes?

We sure will...

Will it be available to the public at a reasonable price in the near futur?

Never! I'm willing to bet that we won't see this kind of technology for at _least_ 15 years in the public stores.

Why empower people when you can keep this to yourself ?

Yeah i know, a bit cynical this morning, but as long as we don't see value and make it a priority to empower people with technologie in good ways we're doomed to be trapped in an ever increasing cycle of product release that enslave us bit by bit...

Enough rambling, i had to post something, the year is a bit slow, oh and happy new year!

And, uhm... Mars / April being a travel month to asia, we'll keep the slow release cycle for a while. After all, why not keep the good news to ourself like the "companies" for our own little short term profit?

Just kidding... ;)

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Robotic insects have been spotted in the wild... who is using them?

for what?

unsolved mysteries?

Some comments after the jump! (image)

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"The research, being undertaken at the Department of Architecture and Computing Technology at the University of Granada, is part of a wider European project dubbed Sensopac."

Just a quick post about the research field
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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

Video from PBS possible new serie... check the others.
(And for once i'm not stuck posting a fucking proprietary, damn ugly, slow, etc... flash!)