Mind-reading Machine? Reality!
Scary or Sensational? A Machine that can look into the mind.
Scientists have developed a computerised mind-reading technique which lets them accurately predict the images that people are looking at by using scanners to study brain activity.
The breakthrough by American scientists took MRI scanning equipment normally used in hospital diagnosis to observe patterns of brain activity when a subject examined a range of black and white photographs. Then a computer was able to correctly predict in nine out of 10 cases which image people were focused on. Guesswork would have been accurate only eight times in every 1,000 attempts.
The study raises the possibility in the future of the technology being harnessed to visualise scenes from a person’s dreams or memory. ( Continue Article )
No Flash for iPhone
It would be great to finally get Flash on the iPhone, but that is still going to be a wishlist item for Santa. Steve Jobs commented that the iPhone and the current Flash options ( Flash Lite / Flash 9.0… ) are not compatible.
Maybe it is the fact that Flash now allows to playback h.264 videos and the capturing method would bring video mail / video chat and video posting easily to the iPhone user. But "duh" Steve ain’t going to share that story with us! Lets see what happens tomorrow - if this long awaited SDK is any buzz worth or if the Apple Stock prices are going to react again to a low blow?
Jangl Turns On Audio Ads
Jangl did finally turn on the revenue stream across the social calling widget network. Most people utilize Jangl by placing calls or SMSs to other internet users without using a real number.
Nav N Go’s iGO My Way 8 GPS the iPhone, iPod touch edition
Here it is, the first GPS solution for the iPhone. We already saw the PSP solution but now Nav N Go have applied their iGO My May flavor to the Apple devices. Based on Engadget the prototype on display at the CeBIT supports turn by turn directions and location finding via a WiFi key or fob. The WiFi key receives the GPS data and retransmits it over WiFi while the fob offers the option to directly attaches the unit to the iPhone or iPod Toch’s docking port.