Hasta La Gadget!

Her was an interesting movie, to say the least. It’s difficult to understand how someone could fall in love and develop a relationship with an operating system, but we might just see more of that happening with the release of EmoSPARK.

It’s an artificial intelligence console that was designed to interact with its users on a personal level. EmoSPARK was created “to allow for a true and meaningful understanding between technology and the human emotional spectrum.” In short, it’s more or less designed to be a constant companion of sorts that users can communicate with and “call” from a number of devices, including tablets, smartphones, laptops, and even TVs.

EmoSPARK collects data and builds an emotional profile graph based on your interactions with it, so it can relate to you when you talk to it. It’s built with emotion detection, conversational intelligence, Wikipedia knowledge (yes, it’s smart too), social games, and move.

EmoSPARK is up for funding on Indiegogo through 2/22/14, where a minimum pledge of $224(USD) will get you one of your very own.

[via Dvice]

Now you can take a trip to numerous destinations without having to leave the comforts of your home and without spending a single cent. How? With Google’s Street View, which has now been updated with 1,001 new destinations and places that were previously not available.

Google hasn’t released the full list of new locations, but they did highlight certain locations that will appeal to hikers, armchair travelers, and of course, actual travelers.

These new places include generous views of Singapore’s zoo, a peek inside the interiors of concert halls in Canada, and tours of the Mark Twain House and Mark Twain Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Other must-see locations include Mexico City’s Chapultepec Park, Copenhagen’s canals, and Spain’s Seville Cathedral.

Where would you like to go today?

[via Google Lat Long via C|NET]

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 …

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

In the unmarked office of 3-D Vision, Inc., you can see a television or PC display a videogame or movie with a convincing stereoscopic effect. That might not seem very unique. However, the television is a CRT from the 1990s, the video game is Super Mario for the Nintendo 64 and the movie is The Wizard of Oz, made in 1939.

Despite the growth in 3D television sales, the requirement to wear 3D glasses has loomed as one of the most significant barriers to adoption. 3-D Vision’s technology still requires glasses, at least for now. However, with some caveats, it overcomes some of the other, oft-overlooked barriers to 3D adoption by creating 3D video from 2D content on 2D (or 3D) displays. On televisions, this is achieved via a small set-top box — a prototype of which approaches the size and noise level of a mini-fridge — that plugs into the video source and the TV and converts the video in real-time with virtually no latency. The box should be available early next year.

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