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patents tl;dr. I wonder if it conflicts with the Japanese cigarette vending machines that use facial recognition?
From 4 years ago..
http://pinktentacle.com/2008/06/magazine-photos-fool-age-verification-cameras/
Of course researcher is Japanese or Japanese American so that is unlikely but.

http://www.whkeith.com/bolo-art.html
http://www.whkeith.com/graphics/bolo-mark-xxiv.jpg

You know you do.

We get this:

http://www.johnny-five.com/layout/newlogo.jpg

But we want this:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/images/terminator_2_large.jpg

or even this!

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/5493/266530-battletech.jpg

Sigh ...

And worse, it's not even a particularly new finding from this research team. They reported on something similar 3 YEARS ago:

http://pinktentacle.com/2008/12/scientists-extract-images-directly-from-brain/

Last, neurofeedback -- a technique that's been around and well-understood for 2 decades now -- isn't likely to teach anyone a skill like juggling. It can help guide you to better understand your bodily responses and reflexes, but it's not like you can imprint one fMRI image onto another person. Neurofeedback takes time and practice, so it's nothing like the Matrix.

--
Psych Central - Get your psychology on.
http://psychcentral.com/

That was my first question. So I read the article. They seem to be using "manufactured dreams" as an equivocal term for "digitally created video watched while awake."

In a way, I'm a bit relieved. The idea of dreams being artificially implanted in one's head is quite properly terrifying.

In another way, I'm a bit disappointed. With the ability to decipher images from the brain, it's a short leap to being able to implant images in the brain.

Japan might be getting used to "accumulate in the top of the food-chain" deal: Japanese schoolchildren fed toxic dolphin meat ... containing dangerous levels of mercury, Dolphin meat causing dangerous mercury levels in Japanese diners - a flawless revenge on the part of dolphins, given their circumstances? (even if only post mortem one)

On the bright side - I, for one, welcome upcoming wave of Kaiju overlords (and maybe even more posters in such style, from my part of the woods)

Why use a hologram when you can use robots? :)
http://pinktentacle.com/2010/10/dance-of-the-hrp-4c-cybernetic-human/

Here's a little look at more of what Japan's planning: http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/futuristic-mega-projects-by-shimizu/

With the niggling problem that Japan isn't actually planning on doing any of those things. They're bold architectural 'visions' by a private company - and it's not clear they plan on actually doing any of these things either. But it makes great PR either way.

The part that's most frustrating is "What's the size of the NASA budget?" And how does that compare to the size of our military budget? We could have a colony in space or on the moon by now, if we weren't spending close to $1 trillion/year making war. Here's a little look at more of what Japan's planning: http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/futuristic-mega-projects-by-shimizu/

People can take mortgages against illiquid assets to pay taxes. Native Americans are a special case of cultural genocide; to disprove your point, there are about six million millionaire families in the USA -- are they all drug addicted? This study shows most addictive behavior is environmental:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park
You have a good point on relative affluence, except that, as James P. Hogan suggests:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyage_from_Yesteryear
once wealth ceases to matter as status, people may find more worthwhile things to do with their time (like, the fact that someone might be unable design and construct their own handbags might be seen as a sign of shame?). The economy you describe, requiring economic slavery to force some people to clean other people's toilets, is on its way out one way or another:
    "Ladybug robot cleans restrooms"
    http://pinktentacle.com/2007/11/ladybug-robot-cleans-restrooms/
Gandhi had a lot to say on that toilet cleaning issue too. :-) People should vote in a good way for their interests. And they will see the consequences. If people had more free time from a basic income, many could become more informed voters and more active in various decision making processes. The health care issue shows that -- other industrialized countries have cheaper and in many ways better health care for most people than in the USA. (Granted, health care for the ultra-rich or certain others in the USA can be good within some expensive areas like cancer treatment, even if cancer treatment is often slighted and more dependent on good research for everyone.)
    http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/cancerMain.shtml
By the way, vitamin D deficiency may help explain the addictive behavior and other health problems you see in darker skin sun adapted Native Americans in Arizona who have adopted an indoor mainstream US lifestyle (including working in casinos):
    "Vitamin D insufficiency in southern Arizona"
    http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/full/87/3/608

GP:

. Its something about they way she is flicking her left finger. I wonder what it is for?

PP:

I'm more curious as to what those mammaries are for.

Those are the robot's eyes. Scientists have found that men will make better eye contact with the robot that way, which facilitates reading their facial expressions.

This one gives me the horrors. Its something about they way she is flicking her left finger. I wonder what it is for?

Yes, robots to eat the old people. A percentage is used to power the robots, the rest is automatically processed into Soylent Green. http://www.pinktentacle.com/2009/08/video-rescue-robot-does-not-eat-people/ http://scifiwire.com/2009/07/report-military-robots-ea.php

Does anyone else think that developing an "evil" A.I. isn't a great idea?
Sure this is a silly little Eliza type Evil, but in a few generations on the proper hardware... they might be selling us vinegar and doing unspeakable things to us

as a followup, here is the OAKO Realtime Smile Recognition technology probably being employed in the worker scanning. according to the sparse sites the system can operate without calibration.

Okay, i'll look like some troll already mods, but give me a second.

I just feel that this is just another promo ad that gets sent to tech sites from some publicists to get the title of the technology spread with their name on it.

this article, (06/29/2009)
Brain controlled wheelchair developed at University of South Florida (02/11/2009)
from European scientists, Brain Controlled Wheelchair (05/11/2008)
Ambient Tech creates brain controlled wheelchair (09/06/2007)
Brain controlled wheelchair from spanish inventor (01/29/2007)
University of Electro Communications in Japan develop brain controlled wheelchair (08/11/2006)

Yeah I'll stop. Mod me down. I just think it's odd that this stuff gets press like it's something brand new. Perhaps sell us by saying its much better? Something. Please.

> Do you have a link to the plasma thing?

Here ya go: http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/aist-improves-3d-projector/

And we can also teach mice how to use tools. I was going to sumbit this as an story, but couldn't find an english written source, just the blog post.

Last time I was in Japan, (scroll down for the robot) progress in the Toyota Partner Robot development was truly impressive. They have amazingly smooth, articulated motions, can walk with close to natural gaits and can climb stairs. Robots, whether fully autonomous or semi-autonomous are here to stay in rolls from support like the ones being developed in Japan or for defense/warfare applications like I saw on my recent visit to Creech AFB. I gotta say though, that this robot has got to be one of my favorites and this robot has got to be one of the creepiest.

I just read about the transparent frog. Did Japanese scientists do this one too? I mean, I've known they had a transparency fetish ever since I stumbled on that hentai site but this is ridiculous!

Print it with your DNA!!

15 seconds of google found this:
http://www.findbiometrics.com/article/54
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/04/printing-with- dna/
http://www.dnatechnologies.com/news/jan_31_2002.sh tml

slashdot gets it wrong again ... current story is here

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/aist-improves- 3d-projector/

Did anyone else notice this ? On the linked article source, look at the links on either side of the article:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/02/marilyn-monroe -shaped-daikon-radish/
and
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/02/frozen-waterfa ll-indicates-bumper-rice-crop-to-come/

Way to identify the hard science mag!

Did anyone else notice this ? On the linked article source, look at the links on either side of the article:

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/02/marilyn-monroe -shaped-daikon-radish/
and
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/02/frozen-waterfa ll-indicates-bumper-rice-crop-to-come/

Way to identify the hard science mag!

Although the article linked is old (come on it would not be slashdot if not, would it) here is a link to the new article from less than month ago (that I suppose should have been linked to originally - maybe update the summary) http://www.pinktentacle.com/2007/07/aist-improves- 3d-projector/

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2006/12/asimo-help-me- ive-fallen-and-i-cant-get-up/