Yahoo Japan has released Face Stealer, an AR app (App Store – Free) which makes your face look like someone else’s.
The iPhone app can generate a mask from a photo of basically anything with a face, such as an animal, celebrity, or comic character, and show it superimposed on live video of your face. Yahoo Japan has also developed a library which is used to analyze and reflect expressions and head movements in real time.
The resulting video or photo can then be shared via Facebook, …
This is a system for preventing password theft, by mixing several dummy cursors in with the real cursor.
The software keyboards used in online banking are effective against key loggers, but by taking screen captures or looking over your shoulder, people would be able to work out your password.
With this system, only the user knows which cursor is the real one, so there’s no concern about people stealing passwords just by being able to see the screen.
“At first sight, it looks as if …
“This is a lighting system, called Lighty. There’s a group of robotic lights on the ceiling, and their orientation and brightness can be controlled through this interface.”
“This feels just like Photoshop. To specify which places you want bright or dark, all you need to do is color in the corresponding areas.”
In this system, the interactive pen display is used to paint the room in light or darkness, with a camera placed in the ceiling returning the results in real …
Today, AkihabaraNews attended the 3rd International Smart Grid Expo at Tokyo Big Site. It was certainly exciting to see so many companies from around the world attending the event. Of course we saw solar panels and every kind of high-tech gadget to manage anything from a small array to an entire large-scale power grid. The show had a strong B2B focus and we found it quite difficult to find any consumer related products. But what we could not resist noticing were some of the sponsors of cool …
NTT is developing technology that faithfully reproduces pictures and sound from distant locations, creating a natural sense of distance and position, as if both people are in the same room.
“Regarding the picture, this system includes technology that uses 3D video. It continually generates pictures from such a viewpoint that, the other person seems to be right in front of you. Regarding the sound, the system uses technology that reproduces the sound wave-front, so you can hear the other …
This omnidirectional camera, currently under development by Ricoh, takes a full 360° panoramic image in one shot.
“It has two fish-eye lenses, each of which covers 180 degrees. The camera combines the two pictures, and sends them via Wi-Fi to a tablet or smartphone for viewing. The idea is, the pictures you take arrive automatically.”
“When viewing it like a regular panoramic image, you can also see up and down. When you pull out from the image, it finally becomes a circle, …
Sony announced today in Japan the WG-10 a new compact Memory Stick and SD/SDHC?SDXC card reader that comes with an internal battery (500mA) and Wi-Fi! Not every camera comes with Eye-Fi support and not every one are interested in having their files shared on this service, the concept here is pretty simple : Insert your SDXC Card or Memory Stick into the WG-10 and start accessing to any videos or photos stored in it from your iPhone, iPad, Android Smartphone, PC or MAC wherever you are! Nice …
“This is the Xperia Tablet Z SO-03E. It’s the world’s slimmest tablet, and Japan’s lightest, too. Until now, tablets have been heavy and thick, so they end up getting left at home. But this one’s light and slim enough to carry in a bag, without it feeling like a heavy load.”
“For this tablet, we’ve used what’s called the Omni Balance Design. This looks very sleek, because it eliminates all unnecessary features.”
“This tablet …
Sony has unveiled its new 2013 Spring VAIO models. A featured new part of the line-up is an exciting model like nothing we’ve seen before – It is a hybrid PC / tablet. Literally, a PC that transforms from a PC to a tablet.
You don’t close this product the same way you do your regular laptop. Just slide the screen with Sony’s innovative “Surf Slider” and then it becomes a tablet. It slides smoothly and smartly and looks very sleek.
It’s a high-spec …
Docomo has unveiled a dual-screen smartphone, the Medias W. It features two 4.3″ displays, a 1.5GHz dual-core CPU, an 8.1MP camera and runs Android 4.1. It will be released in April 2013.
“This is the MEDIAS W. Ordinarily, you use it folded up, like a regular smartphone. When you want to look at a picture or map, it can open up to become a 5.6 inch screen. So you can read maps or browse the Web easily, and it makes text entry easy, too.”
“Let’s display a map. …
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