Posts Tagged ‘new technology’

Teleporting in the next ten years?

Thursday, July 22nd, 2010

teleporting (1)Not too long ago, we were convinced England had a real chance of winning the World Cup. We’ve recently also bought into the idea that David Cameron is equipped to run the country.

But here’s a delusion to make all others pale in comparison – one third of Britons believe that they’ll be teleporting in a few years time. Teleporting. In a few years time.

A recent survey by Cisco – the computer giant, not the tiny, silver-haired R&B star – asked respondents to give an indication of when they thought certain technologies would be available.

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Excitement over lip reading mobiles and speech recognition experiments

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

lips2 (1)New technology could enable people to talk to their mobiles silently, the BBC reports.

Visitors to the Cebit electronics fair in Germany have been shown a prototype that measures tiny electrical signals produced by the muscles. The signals can be recorded and turned into synthesised speech even if a single word is not said out loud.

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