Reading Lips In Software
SEWilco writes "The Register points out that Intel has released code for reading lips from a video image, Audio Visual Speech Recognition (AVSR). They do point out that better results would probably be achieved by combining video and audio recognition processing. I don't know if they have any patents, we all know some prior "art" from 2001, er.. 1968. HAL's accomplishment was also mentioned by CNN during 2001 in an article about this group's work."
This whole, "maybe we could apply 'blah' to rule the DMCA unconstitutional!" thing is turning into the next "wow, imagine a beowulf cluster of [...]".
STOP IT WHILE YOU CAN. PLEASE! I BEG OF YOU.