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Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes
tinkertim writes "Engadget is reporting that Manabe Hiroyuki has developed a personal 'being' assistant, the wearable headphone gaze detector. The device apparently takes notice of what you look at (and hear) and makes note of the more important events in your life that it records. From the article '[the device] is slightly less elegant than the traditional neural implant, with this system you could not only record the goings on of your days and "bookmark" important events, but also train the cameras to feed you information about your surroundings based on QR codes or possibly eventually object recognition; think of it as augmented aural reality triggered by giving a passing glance.'"
Hm, try surfing and holding a camera. Paddling out would be hard and getting up would be impossible.
When kitesurfing you need to hold onto the bar with both hands. Helmet cameras don't follow your eyes and they shake too much for a decient picture.
I guees you don't do sports much :-)
All I see is some dumb looking guy with dumb looking headphones, and no real explanation of what either of them does.
In the U.S. it varies state to state, from as low as 15 (14 under very specific circumstances) to as high as 18.
The hilarious part? If you happen to live in a '16' state (say Oklahoma), fly to Britain (16) or Spain (14), or any other country with a lower age of consent than 18, and have consensual sex with someone at the legal low end in that country, then pass back into the U.S. and have a layover in an '18' state (Viginia), if the authorities are watching you or get wind of it, you can be held and sentenced in the '18' state for not only statutory rape and child molestation, but also a great law making 'sex' tourism illegal. Even if the sex you had was legal in both the jurisdiction it occurred in and where you reside.
BTW, I understand that if you live in Britain (16), and go have sex with a 14 y.o. in Spain, which is legal, don't ever plan on going back to Britain, or the same will happen with you there.
"Unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
Impossible means not yet done." ~~ Julia Ecklar
Meh. This has been done already, even before today's new device.
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See: http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp
For list of many interesting projects and papers on the subject.
For interesting look at overlaying images onto people via facial recognition and such, see:
http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp
and
http://www.eyetap.org/research/wearables/wearcomp
-AC
If you RTFA, you'd see that it's nothing like what you seem to think it is. Even in theory, you'd have to be looking at your buddy, but it isn't a recorder, it's more like bookmarks for your life.