Lost the keys? Just ask your magic glasses
Thursday March 13 2008
A team of Japanese scientists claim to solved one of mankind's greatest mysteries -- where did I leave my car keys?
And the secretive artificial intelligence project codenamed Smart Goggle does not stop at elusive keys. With Yasuo Kuniyoshi's invention balanced on your nose, nothing -- be it the remote control or mobile phone -- should ever go missing again.
Simply tell the glasses what you are looking for and it will play into your eye a video of the last few seconds you saw that item.
Built on to the glasses is a tiny camera which makes a constant record of everything the wearer sees: the tiny display inside the glasses identifies what is being scanned and a small readout instantly announces what the computer thinks the object probably is. For some things that look different from a range of angles, however, the glasses offer only a "best guess" and they are better at identifying a guitar than a coathanger or battery.
But unfortunately, of course, there is one irritating question they would not be able to answer: "Now where did I put my glasses?" (© The Times, London).
- Leo Spark
