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Because You're Ugly: Smart Goggles!

Posted by Amanda Parsons in Because You're Ugly

March 18, 2008 4:19 PM

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PhotobucketSure they're ugly as sin, but these Smart Goggles could make searching for your keys, phones and ipods a thing of the past!

Imagine those frantic last-minute searches for mislaid car keys and mobile phones could soon be gone forever thanks to Professor Kuniyoshi at the University of Tokyo who invented these spectacles in an effort to end "senior moments."

The glasses come with a built in camera, display screen and computer brain. According to the Daily Mail, they work like so:

"To use the glasses, the wearer first wanders around a house or workplace for an hour or so, looking at the objects he or she may later want to find in a hurry.

Each time the camera focuses on a object - such as a set of keys, a mobile phone or a purse - the wearer says the name aloud. The name is then recorded and stored into the memory.

Once the names have been programmed in, the glasses will try to find the right name for any object they come across. The names appear in small type on the viewfinder.
If they are unable to recognize an object they make a guess and - if they get it wrong - learn from their mistakes. At some point in the future, if the wearer is trying to find their keys in a hurry, they simply name the object.

The glasses search its video memory and show its last known location on the display."

The future is here, everybody! Let's get drunk and lose stuff!

 

Comments (1)

  1. Alex Brant-Zawadzki says:
    March 18, 2008 16:49

    The future involves getting drunk and losing stuff?

    In that case, I have something shocking to announce...

    ...I am from the future.

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