Pattern Recognition

A new chip design could lead to massively parallel, energy efficient computation that handles complex tasks like pattern recognition better and faster than ever before.

Researchers from the University of Washington and the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence have created the first fully automated computer program that teaches itself everything there is to know about a visual concept by associating words with images.

TokyoFlash is a supplier of limited-edition LCD and LED watches that have joyfully substituted the conventional clock hands and dull numerals for exotic displays featuring counter-intuitive ideograms. Its new Kisai Spider Acetate watch has arguably set a new standard for inscrutability.

A new supermarket scanner is able to identify grocery items based on their appearance, not barcodes.

Japanese researchers have developed a computer program that they claim can analyze why a baby is crying.

A computer game that uses technology originally developed to help train fighter pilots is getting remarkable results in helping aspiring professional basketballers improve their real, on-court game.

August 31, 2006 Panoptic’s proposed C-Thru 3D Video Surveillance System could be loosely described as a formalised, scalable implementation of Superman’s X-ray

March 23, 2006 To say we think WowWee Robotics has played a pioneering role in the first wave of the consumer robotics revolution is an understatement. Twent

Biometrics is a rapidly evolving technology which offers an effective means of dealing with these kinds of verification and identification concerns. One such pr