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Real-Time, Detailed Face Tracking On a Nokia N900
ptresadern writes "Researchers at the University of Manchester this week revealed a detailed face tracker that runs in real-time on the Nokia N900 mobile phone. Unlike existing mobile face trackers (video) that give an approximate position and scale of the face, Manchester's embedded Active Appearance Model accurately tracks a number of landmarks on and around the face such as the eyes, nose, mouth and jawline. The extra level of detail that this provides potentially indicates who the user is, where they are looking and how they are feeling. The face tracker was developed as part of a face- and voice-verification system for controlling access to mobile internet applications such as e-mail, social networking and on-line banking."
250,000 huh?
Most of the iPhone apps fall under the following categories:
-small flash-like games
-videos wrapped in an app api
-sound boards
If you are going to count apps like that, then lets add the following to the n900's list
-*actual* flash games (addictinggames.com, etc all work)
-built in unix tools (top, etc)
I'm fairly certain if you compared these now-equivalent lists, you would probably find the n900 has MANY more apps, and that most of them are probably MUCH better written to boot.
Oh, did I mention you can literally write your own apps in almost ANY language you want without paying $100 for a developers key. You can even distribute your own software repository publicly without paying a fee or asking users to void their warranties.
Yeah, 250 000 apps sounds kind of pathetic to me...