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...then here's a word perfect translation of that article (courtesy of Babelfish).

Erm... then again, maybe not.

(If you liked that translation, you might enjoy Babelfish's attempt at Slashdot.jp.)

...then here's a word perfect translation of that article (courtesy of Babelfish).

Erm... then again, maybe not.

(If you liked that translation, you might enjoy Babelfish's attempt at Slashdot.jp.)

WTF are you talking about? How does the lack of a pretty decompiler imply the impossibility of facial recognition?

For one, several different samples of source code could compile down to identical assembly code. Variable names and comments are lost during compilation, so those can't be rebuilt. And different constructs in the high-level language could also boil down to identical machine code during optimization. Still, you can certainly decompile assembly code to express it in a high-level language, but it's going to look like machine-generated code without some human intervention.

With decompilation for translation you also have the problem of certain concepts being easily expressed in one language but not another. For example, Babel Fish can convert a French poem into English, but the literal translation will be awkward in meaning and totally destroyed in rhyme and rhythm. Trying to convert between BASIC and C++ will produce a similar result: a literal translation (which must exist if both languages are Turing complete), but a real mess for a human to read and use.

But that's all irrelevant to facial recognition. That system just needs to compile and compare condensed data (vertices, surfaces, brightnesses) from the face it sees now with the face it's seen before. If the data matches within some tolerance then the ATM can accept that as partial verification of your identity. It doesn't need to construct a full replica of you that your mother would mistake for her own son.

I don't imagine that a static facial image alone will grant a person full access to their account. There needs to be additional verification: a PIN, a credit card, a smart card, a dynamic biometric, and/or a challenge/response. If access were based on face alone then a twin or a thief with a plaster bust could impersonate you. Probably a smart card would be sufficient -- a smart card plus facial recognition is certainly harder to fake then a simple magnetic card plus four digits.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

The bomb-maker and his students could be spread across the world, using instant language translation tools to communicate.

I played up the race relations, as it was a key part of the event for everyone involved. I did not however describe anyone in a prejudiced way. It is relavant to the continuing theme of 'US Oppression' and the tags of 'Police state'.

As I cannot search Youtube, try this one, or 'ondiep'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpdetGCDODw

This is in Dutch, although a reputable source:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/60338261/Politi e:_Stille_tocht_Ondiep_gaat_door.html

It quotes 135 arrests and the killing. Can be translated at http://babelfish.altavista.com/.

Again, you will not find this in any European national newspaper or non-Dutch European source, which makes source hunting difficult though not impossible.

I've killed some time on this since it's a pretty interesting idea. It turns out there are plenty outside the D and F range. It does seem to like pages with a single Flash object and not much else, so that's bad. It also makes some pretty arbitrary decisions which don't mean squat to many sites. There are some sites that get enough traffic that speed is a factor but not so much that a content delivery network is really necessary, for example.

I skipped the actual link and score on sites that are pretty much just representative of the sites around them. I wanted to include them by name, though, to show where they fall. I've stuck mostly to main index pages, and I've noted where I've gone deeper.

A: Google (99%), Altavista main page (98%), Altavista Babelfish (90%) (including upon doing a translation from English to French), Craigslist (96%), Pricewatch (93%), Slackware Linux, OpenBSD, Led Zeppelin site at Atlantic (100%), supremecommander.com, w3m web browser site (96%)

B: Apache.org (87%), the lighttpd web server (84%), Google Maps, which also got a C once (84% in most cases), Perlmonks (84%), Dragonfly BSD (85%), Butthole Surfers band page (81%), 37 Signals

C: One Laptop Per Child,, ESR's homepage, the Open Source Initiative (78%), Google News (73%), Lucid CMS (74%), Perl.org (75%), lucasfilm.com, Charred Dirt game

D: gnu.org, The Register, A9 (66%), kernel.org, Akamai (64%), kuro5hin.org, freshmeat.net, linuxcd.org, Movable Type (61%), Postnuke, blogster.com, Joel on Software (67%), Fog Creek Software, metallica.com, gaspowered.com, Scorched 3D (68%), id software (64%), ISBN.nu book search

F: MS IIS (49%), microsoft.com, msn.com, linux.com, fsf.org, discovery.com, newegg.com, rackspace.com, the Simtel archive (26%), CNet Download (29%), Adobe (58%), savvis.com, mtv.com, sun.com, pclinuxos.com, freebsd.org, phpnuke.org, use.perl.org, ruby-lang.org, python.org, java.com, Rolling Stones band page (56%), powellsbooks.com, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, getfirefox.com

My site for my company (96%) gets an A (no, I'm not going to get it slashdotted) which is pretty simple but has a pic and some Javascript on it. Several sites I have done or have helped design with someone else get C or D ratings.

I've killed some time on this since it's a pretty interesting idea. It turns out there are plenty outside the D and F range. It does seem to like pages with a single Flash object and not much else, so that's bad. It also makes some pretty arbitrary decisions which don't mean squat to many sites. There are some sites that get enough traffic that speed is a factor but not so much that a content delivery network is really necessary, for example.

I skipped the actual link and score on sites that are pretty much just representative of the sites around them. I wanted to include them by name, though, to show where they fall. I've stuck mostly to main index pages, and I've noted where I've gone deeper.

A: Google (99%), Altavista main page (98%), Altavista Babelfish (90%) (including upon doing a translation from English to French), Craigslist (96%), Pricewatch (93%), Slackware Linux, OpenBSD, Led Zeppelin site at Atlantic (100%), supremecommander.com, w3m web browser site (96%)

B: Apache.org (87%), the lighttpd web server (84%), Google Maps, which also got a C once (84% in most cases), Perlmonks (84%), Dragonfly BSD (85%), Butthole Surfers band page (81%), 37 Signals

C: One Laptop Per Child,, ESR's homepage, the Open Source Initiative (78%), Google News (73%), Lucid CMS (74%), Perl.org (75%), lucasfilm.com, Charred Dirt game

D: gnu.org, The Register, A9 (66%), kernel.org, Akamai (64%), kuro5hin.org, freshmeat.net, linuxcd.org, Movable Type (61%), Postnuke, blogster.com, Joel on Software (67%), Fog Creek Software, metallica.com, gaspowered.com, Scorched 3D (68%), id software (64%), ISBN.nu book search

F: MS IIS (49%), microsoft.com, msn.com, linux.com, fsf.org, discovery.com, newegg.com, rackspace.com, the Simtel archive (26%), CNet Download (29%), Adobe (58%), savvis.com, mtv.com, sun.com, pclinuxos.com, freebsd.org, phpnuke.org, use.perl.org, ruby-lang.org, python.org, java.com, Rolling Stones band page (56%), powellsbooks.com, amazon.com, barnesandnoble.com, getfirefox.com

My site for my company (96%) gets an A (no, I'm not going to get it slashdotted) which is pretty simple but has a pic and some Javascript on it. Several sites I have done or have helped design with someone else get C or D ratings.

I assume the articles in German will be written. But to the invention of web language digester Babelfish giving thanks, entire Worldsurface from this gift benefit can. Among others I wish our new machine translated feudal barons to welcome!

(simplified)
(traditional)

http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr

The characters will only show up if you have support for them.

Osaka Poice arrests two guys,because they show URLs of pedophilistic websites at their own website.

Though I have no love for pedophiles,and strongly oppose child abuse...I doubt this arrest is "correct".
We discussed about this case recently

The Web in the air of Cardal
Near 40 niños of the Italy school they received its computers of the hand of several authorities of the government. In one week the niños podrà n to accede to Internet from all the points of the city

In the middle of great expectation and much alegrÃa of the niños, president Tabaré Và zquez next to a great retinue of authorities left inaugurated the experience pilot of the Ceibal Plan in the Italy school n 24 of the city of Cardal (in Florida), the one that in the prÃximos dÃas quedarà connected to Internet by means of mbricas connections inalÃ, in order that the students can accede to the Web from their homes.

In a brief speech during the act, Và single zquez refirià to "the importance" of the Ceibal project and asegurà that "cumplirà with the cronogram of arriving itself at 2009 to all the schools from paÃs". The agent chief executive prefirià to yield its time to one of the niños, that articulà words that moved to the presents.

To I finish of the act, Và zquez was consulted by the present journalists on if to raÃz of cuts in the RendiciÃn de Cuentas it were going to be all the money for the plan. Và zquez asegurà that was not going to lack the money. "the USS 15 anticipated million està n in the budget", asegurà the conductor of the Uruguayan government.

Under the glance of many parents, some from the windows or accommodated in algÃn rincÃn of the halls class, about 40 niños of 3 and 6 año received their computers X-O. DonaciÃn of Nicholas Negroponte is of 200 units. The rest of the students of that school of cardal recibirà its computers in these dÃas.

AlgarabÃa to have a PC in its hands, some for the first time, dejà won the boys, who did not hope to ignite his mà quinas, to introduce their personal data (the first time that ignite it is necessary to put the one name and to choose the colors of the screen) and to put themselves to experiment with the X-O. What mà s entusiasmà was to be able to remove photos and to film themselves with webcam that come including.

The niños by this week podrà n to sail in Internet from the Italy school, where instalà a servant to provide itself with conexiÃn in the classrooms, that in the prÃximos dÃas extenderà to the rest of the city so that the niños can be connected to the Web dese its homes. For mbrica it utilizarà tecnologÃa of conexiÃn inalà - it does not need cables that proveyà ANTEL with colaboraciÃn of UTE.

One of that mà s divirtià giving the PC was the minister of EducaciÃn and Cultura, Jorge Brovetto. Ademà s of this jerarca, también was present the minister of Industry, Jorge Leprosy asà like the minister of GanaderÃa, José Mujica, next to their wife LucÃa Topolansky.

También participated in the act the director of EducaciÃn of the MEC, Luis Garibaldi, the president of the ANEP, Luis bal YarzÃ, the president of the LATU, Miguel Brezhner, the Intendant of Florida, Juan Giaccetto asà like industralists of INTEL and Microsoft, that lanzarà n its own pilot in the department of PaysandÃ.

ProducciÃn: Cecilia Pérez and Pablo Solari, envoys of the Observer to Cardal

(It observes)
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pressetext. de%2Fpte.mc%3Fpte%3D070511018

Yeah, like Altavista was doing until they were forced to copy the Google clean visual because people have already become saturated with advertisements.

Original:

http://plusd.itmedia.co.jp/pcuser/articles/0703/15 /news013_2.html

Go to babelfish and get it translated:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

Funny, but I can't figure out anything really. Mabe some Japanese speakers can help us out here?

Here is the link to the original Spiegel article:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/tech/0,1518,452899, 00.html

Here is a link to read the *babelfish-translated* version of the above link:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spiegel.de% 2Fnetzwelt%2Ftech%2F0%2C1518%2C452899%2C00.html

Der Spiegel, a German newspaper, had an article in March where the phenomenon CCD might have to do with GMO's:

According to Hans-Hinrich Kaatz, a professor at the University of Halle in eastern Germany and the director of the study, the bacterial toxin in the genetically modified corn may have "altered the surface of the bee's intestines, sufficiently weakening the bees to allow the parasites to gain entry -- or perhaps it was the other way around. We don't know."

babelfish translation of the article or the original in German

Hi, and thx for the link.
It seems to be a great device, these guys at slim-devices are really improving their products years after years.

Sorry for the (too) short description of the DAC2000, it doesn't purely reformats the signal, it contains a processor that resamples the signal to feed the converter stage with a reclocked signal and it can be filtered without bad phase impact.
Perhaps this babelfish translation describes it better.

I evaluated the wifi way, which is really nice, but as I also stream the sound of videos, the time difference is too much of a problem.

It's nice to read from a computer/audio geek, not so common.

There's a brand-spanking-new Wikipedia article on him but nothing in the Russian Wikipedia for " " or " ."

This article is in Russian and is a good place to start. Here's the English translation, which comes out as "Oleg Vladimirovich losev - pioneer of the semiconductor electronics (to the century from the birthday)."

Actually.... I just strolled over to Babelfish and did a translation of 'pu' (must be lower case) from French to English (this was my first choice as a translation attempt) and surprisingly it came back with: "been able"... surely they could market that!!!

This is far superior to the "miss-to-kill" technology they were employing in previous models.

In separate news, the Dutch institute of technology just announced a fishing net made of superfibre to protect troops in *stan against RPGs. Does this fall under low tech (it is a regular fishing net producer that makes these things) or high tech (it is still a superfibre)?

Babelfish translation here: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=nl_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.volkskrant. nl%2Fwetenschap%2Farticle392325.ece%2FVisnet_van_s upervezel_smoort_antitankgranaat
But that will need some extra translation:
visnet = fishing net
granaatwurger = grenade strangler
wachttorens = guard towers

Google has re-invented video search.

It's a bucket wheel extractor, used for strip mining coal. Basically, it's the Mother Of All Backhoes.

More pictures of it here:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?url=http://www.raise.ru/articles/421/&lp= ru_en

If they would simply give up the use (and we could legislate this away very easily) of gypsum phosphate based fertilizers on tobacco crops we could cut cancer from smoking by more than 80% (some say 90%).

Do you have a single published study in a peer-reviewed medical journal that backs up this assertion?

I was courious about this as well so I did a search. Google didn't return anything but the first result with Alta Vista, there are 49, returned this: SENATE STAFF ANALYSIS AND ECONOMIC IMPACT STATEMENT(pdf). The summary is:

This bill authorizes the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to abate imminent hazards from phosphogypsum stack systems through the use of funds from the Nonmandatory Land Reclamation Trust Fund (NLRTF). The bill provides registration fees and financial responsibility requirements. It also provides for a right of action and lien to seek reimbursement of expended funds and provides for the closure of abandoned stack systems. It also repeals provisions exempting certain small mines from review as developments of regional impact.

Nobody is stopping you from using those other search engines.

Can you imagine the world without the Web? (It was only about 10 years ago.)

The web was created by Al Gore in 1996?

My word ignorance has passed on even to our elders. /me cries.

Just a quick look at AltaVista's about pages shows they *indexed* the web in 95. Of course, the Internet wasn't there before Google, so it must be bogus.

RFC 1580/FYI23 which was published in March 1994, contains a definition of the web.

In actuality, the World Wide Web came about in 1992 about 15 years ago.

Now, had Bjorn meant that slashdotters wouldn't remember before ten years ago because that's about how old most moderators are, i could understand, but he should have been more clear on the matter.

Can you imagine the world without the Web? (It was only about 10 years ago.)

The web was created by Al Gore in 1996?

My word ignorance has passed on even to our elders. /me cries.

Just a quick look at AltaVista's about pages shows they *indexed* the web in 95. Of course, the Internet wasn't there before Google, so it must be bogus.

RFC 1580/FYI23 which was published in March 1994, contains a definition of the web.

In actuality, the World Wide Web came about in 1992 about 15 years ago.

Now, had Bjorn meant that slashdotters wouldn't remember before ten years ago because that's about how old most moderators are, i could understand, but he should have been more clear on the matter.

Interestingly enough, google thinks so, too.

Of course, yahoo has its own opinion.
 
Although, altavista seems to almost agree. Check the second non-advertised result.
 
I do find this amusing though. Third place, how humble.
 
I didn't expect such interesting results. The site with the search term in its url was tops for av and yahoo, but not google. Yahoo ranked the wiki entry above google, but av reversed that decision, google of course thought itself was more important than the wiki. Google's own reference site was number one in its own search and near the top in the other two, but pagerank.net wasn't even in the top 10 for google's search. I'm not sure what conclusions can be drawn from all that, but it is definitely food for thought.

...is on this site (sadly translated from dutch to english), you only have to look at the dreadfull, horrible pictures to experience the pain and agony the writer must have felt when he tried to open a bag of peanuts using his own, special way and the reactions he gets from the company that sells these bags just out in the open !
 

As to be expected, there isn't any critical information in the obvious searches (democracy, Tiananmen Square, PRC). I wonder if any of the edits will add this. I'm also curious of the Chinese authorities have secured a way of seeing all edits to the entire site from day to day, purging all the information that is damning to the government.

  Under "democracy", I wonder intrigued to see how China is described on the map [from CIA world factbook originally] as "democratic, but does not allow for alternative parties" - which seems to be the standard Orwellian-speak of a communist nation. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is their most obvious map listing of a non-democractic government.

  FYI, use babelfish and use to/from Chinese-trad for best-but-still-poor results. Remember to translate your search words into Chinese-trad before entering.

http://www.computadorusado.com.br/plone/news/junho /PCPpopular/

write that link into http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr (choose Portuguese to English) and you get a bad translation.

General ideas in the newsstory:

- poorer people (Class C) can now buy PCs
- in Brazilian Wal-Mart, in the 2006 1st 4 months, PCs sold 200% more than in the same period in 2005
- Brazilian Carrefour reports a 40% PC-related sales increase
- Basic PCs can be bought in 24 payments of about US$ 30
- Reasons: Exchange rate makes imports like PC parts cheaper, special tax exemption laws for popular basic machines and government bank financing "basic PC" acquisitions
- Gray PC market (usually evading taxes) shrink as tax-paying ones increase
- Basic PCs sold with Linux + free software; MS answers with Windows Starter version
- Over 30 different makers and more entering the niche
- Significant sales growth is believed to be possible
- Bill Gates declares a project will be expanded to sell PCs like pre-paid cell phones: US $360 paid in cash for the computer and the rest is paid with cards which buy usage time until the buyer pays the full US$720 price

Mind you, these are not servers. These are Linux desktops, which many claim it's not ready.

Nice try, http://babelfish.altavista.com/ But I'm not buying it.

...expressions, metaphors, onomatopoeias, sarcasm, similes, homonyms, synonyms, heteronyms, or homophones, this program will probably work well, within the limits of voice-recognition software, of course. Currently, text-based translations aren't accurate or even necessarily coherent. (English to any language back to English in Babelfish, anyone?) Most people who have tried voice-recognition software would understand that you can get a computer to recognize "Goddamn computer!" and not much else, even if you speak. Like. A. Robot. I would hate for the next major war to be started based on the combat translation equivalent of "the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak" into "the wine was good, but the meat was undercooked."

OK, I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who just thought of the inane results of translating things back and forth with Babel Fish .... This better be some DAMN good translation software.

I can just imagine the "limitation of liability" portion of the end-use agreement from the company that developed the translation software...

Even worse, what happens when some on-the-edge person pulls out a hidden weapon and injures/kills a soldier (or whoever) because of incorrect translation? Oh, is this just part of the "risk of the business"? ...

In fairness, I've increased the sample to include results from Altavista which of course the judge should have done.
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=sp am&kgs=1&kls=0

2 of the top 3 results that weren't paid advertisments were for the meat. Seems the judge opened a can of worms, err spam.

Yes I know my sample is silly, that's the point.

There's so much talk on Slashdot of Microsoft abusing their stolen monopoly. Yet we've handed Google one. People blindly swear allegiance to them, defending their more questionable actions that if another company perpretrated, they'd certainly condemn. Honestly, when did last use another search engine? When Google's broken, are you even able to find one?

We don't all use Google all the tyme, as the stats from wiki you posted show. Sure I may use Google most of the tyme but I also use other SEs as well, like About, Alta Vista, Open Directory, and Mooter. About has good sections on Anthropology and Archeology as well as Photography, all of which I am interested in. Actually it was when I searched Google in these that I found them, Google returned them. I've found Alta Vista is good for science and technology, better than Google in some areas. And when Google doesn't give me what I'm looking for Mooter and the Open Directory sometimes will. I don't use Gmail either, instead I use Yahoo! Mail.

So now, they've changed their stance, and they're including the HDMI output. According to http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pag econtent?lp=ja_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jp.playstat ion.com%2Finfo%2Frelease%2Fnr_20060922_ps3_hdmi.ht ml this link. The translation's bad, but it will suffice, I hope.

Hmm... Sounds like it's getting to be a better bargain. Not necessarily a good one, but a better one compared to the original price.

"this post is hereby seized. present yourself to the nearest Gestapo office" or somesuch. You know, this is Google (Altavista?) language tools era. Ninguém tem desculpa para não entender algo porque está em outro idioma.

I work at a great company with intentionally lax internet policies. It's definitely for the best.

I'm a tecnical writer and I rely on a great number of resources to get my job done. For instance, I have friends that are engineers, IT professionals, and designers and it saves me a ton of time to be able to speak to these unofficial resources unhindered when I have questions. IM and FTP are far more convenient than email and fax when I need a mockup or schematic. Sometimes I attend webinars that stream on weird ports, and the IT staff is always happy to temporarily tweak the firewall just for me. Other services like telnet and remote desktop come in handy when there's a resource I need that I've forgotten at home.

Even our Exchange spam filter is optional, which is a good thing since on the rare day where I get 1 spam I get 3 emails from the filter telling me about it.

I guess I'd be an "internet native" according to TFA, but even if I wasn't I'd be frustrated by any hinderance on internet connectivity. If my workplace blocked websites, my generation knows to just use a sneaky proxy like Babelfish anyway.

I respect my company for respecting me.

I move to replace the CAPS LOCK key with a Delicate Blue velvet clad button, emblazoned with the pleasant calm round looking words:

"Don't Panic"

Pushing said button could be an automatic transfer to http://babelfish.altavista.com/ babel fish.

Or it could bring up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page/ Wiki pedia ; the closest thing we have to the guide .

I googled it for you:

http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=go ogle+used+as+verb+lawsuit&kgs=1&kls=0

The Top-10 Alternatives to "I googled it" (note the lower-case 'g'):

• 10 "I AltaVista'd it" (potential ad campaign: "Hasta la vista, Google!")
• 9 "I Yahoo!'d it" (Good luck with that lawsuit; it's been in the official motto of several states for decades!)
• 8 "I Asked it" (AKA "I just axed it", since they "axed" poor Jeeves...)
• 7 "I HotBot'd it" (She's not all that hot these days...)
• 6 "I WebCrawler'd it" (Crawl being the operative word; no speed records broken here!)
• 5 "I Accoona'd it" (Possibly illegal to admit in several states)
• 4 "I Lycos'd it" (Not to be confused with "I Pecos'd it" from the 1950's...)
• 3 "I Netscaped it" (That's netscaped not netscraped)
• 2 "I AOL'd it" (Roughly analogous to "I screwed it up")

• 1 "I Dogpile'd it" (Imagine Cartman in the "red rocket" scene...)

Why can't users just install Firefox and NoScript extension for it. Then Javascript will be disabled by default, but user can whitelist the sites where Javascript should be enabled. Problem solved.

Not quite, you see that means you have to trust the web-sites you use to not allow any XSS attacks. For example, I imagine that most people would not have second thoughts about trusting altavista.com, however, clicking on a crafty link[1] to this site could result in serious trouble.

The only solution that is guaranteed to work is to disable Javascript completely. Why do we, as consumers, always find ourselves in the shit? We should demand better security than this.

Simon

[1] - I certify that this link is safe to click.

Page Rank seems to work on the premise that the more a site is linked to, the more valuable it is.

Exactly! That's why Google became the number one search engine on the planet. In the early days of search engines (when sites like Altavista and HotBot were king) pages were ranked soley on their own content. The idea of analyzing the links between pages was absolutely revolutionary. Prior to that the best measure of a search engine was the number of pages it indexed - a number that was proudly displayed on the front page of most search engines of that time.

Lots of pages indexed meant lots of results. You often had to wade through up to 10 pages of results to find what you were looking for. Although all the results contained the correct keywords the actual content was often wildly irrelevant. Relevance was gauged by factors like the number of times a keyword appeared on the page, encouraging the creation of pages full of crap (such as tiny white text on white background repeating popular search phrases tens or hundreds of times).

Enter Google. The relevance of results increased dramatically. It became common to find what you were looking for on the first page of results. Hell, the results were so good they introduced the I'm Feeling Lucky button to take you immediately to the first result. That's why today most people don't search for information anymore, they google for it.

It's true that PageRank has it's own problems, and that content spamming has been largely replaced by link spamming. Still, things are much better these days than before Google came around.

There is a similar product being developed in Portugal, but it doesn't require head movement. It works by reading the eye movements, so it can calculate the position you are looking in the screen. To click, you just need to blink an eye. The target users are people with extreme incapacity, like paralysis, but I guess something like this could be marketed for common users. The main problem is it's price, currently 1750 + 5% taxes. There is also a cheaper version, but requires head movement.

Unfortunately, this project is, mostly, a one man show and I know he isn't thinking of going international, yet. Anyone interested always try contacting him, maybe he can work out something. At least it shows interest from outside and might speed up internationalization.

The webpage is only in portuguese, so I'm linking through babel fish:

• Magic Key Official webpage
• Magic Key Eye Control FAQ (doesn't require head movement)
• Magic Key FAQ (requires head movement)
• Photos
• Video from media coverage. [18.7MB]

There is a similar product being developed in Portugal, but it doesn't require head movement. It works by reading the eye movements, so it can calculate the position you are looking in the screen. To click, you just need to blink an eye. The target users are people with extreme incapacity, like paralysis, but I guess something like this could be marketed for common users. The main problem is it's price, currently 1750 + 5% taxes. There is also a cheaper version, but requires head movement.

Unfortunately, this project is, mostly, a one man show and I know he isn't thinking of going international, yet. Anyone interested always try contacting him, maybe he can work out something. At least it shows interest from outside and might speed up internationalization.

The webpage is only in portuguese, so I'm linking through babel fish:

• Magic Key Official webpage
• Magic Key Eye Control FAQ (doesn't require head movement)
• Magic Key FAQ (requires head movement)
• Photos
• Video from media coverage. [18.7MB]

There is a similar product being developed in Portugal, but it doesn't require head movement. It works by reading the eye movements, so it can calculate the position you are looking in the screen. To click, you just need to blink an eye. The target users are people with extreme incapacity, like paralysis, but I guess something like this could be marketed for common users. The main problem is it's price, currently 1750 + 5% taxes. There is also a cheaper version, but requires head movement.

Unfortunately, this project is, mostly, a one man show and I know he isn't thinking of going international, yet. Anyone interested always try contacting him, maybe he can work out something. At least it shows interest from outside and might speed up internationalization.

The webpage is only in portuguese, so I'm linking through babel fish:

• Magic Key Official webpage
• Magic Key Eye Control FAQ (doesn't require head movement)
• Magic Key FAQ (requires head movement)
• Photos
• Video from media coverage. [18.7MB]

There is a similar product being developed in Portugal, but it doesn't require head movement. It works by reading the eye movements, so it can calculate the position you are looking in the screen. To click, you just need to blink an eye. The target users are people with extreme incapacity, like paralysis, but I guess something like this could be marketed for common users. The main problem is it's price, currently 1750 + 5% taxes. There is also a cheaper version, but requires head movement.

Unfortunately, this project is, mostly, a one man show and I know he isn't thinking of going international, yet. Anyone interested always try contacting him, maybe he can work out something. At least it shows interest from outside and might speed up internationalization.

The webpage is only in portuguese, so I'm linking through babel fish:

• Magic Key Official webpage
• Magic Key Eye Control FAQ (doesn't require head movement)
• Magic Key FAQ (requires head movement)
• Photos
• Video from media coverage. [18.7MB]