Monday, March 17, 2008

Japanese Scientist's Glasses Can Find Anything

A Japanese scientist named Yasuo Kuniyoshi created a device that you put into your glasses so that if you lose something, it will play back the last place you had it. That would be really useful. I'd like to have that. Only I'd have goggles because I don't wear glasses. This device would be able to locate anything that was lost. I pod, remote control, cell phone, anything! The only problem would be if you lost your glasses. Then you'd have a serious problem. It has always been a problem that has vexed the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence.
Proffesor Kuniyoshi has even greater ambitions for his software, ambitions that owe a lot to the visual display of the Terminator of science fiction. Although the experimental model shown exclusively to The Times Wednesday, is still too bulky for daily use, the team at the Tokyo University School of Information Science and Technology are confident that it can soon be miniaturized. It could even, they suggest, be small enough to look a little different from a normal pair of glasses.

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