In 20 years, technologies like voice control, eye tracking, facial recognition, and even facial expression recognition will be commonplace and will perform flawlessly.
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It can draw the people communicating closer, allowing them to exchange not only text but also all sorts of personal information, even facial cues.
Not just your name and address and place of birth but your image, signature, fingerprints - maybe even iris scans and a facial measurement template.
From there, you'll be able to use all of your iDevice's sensors as triggers, from motion through to facial recognition and even GPS. The app doesn't just fire the shutter, either -- it also gives you control over the focus and flash.
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Wilhelm Meiners and his colleagues at the Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen, Germany, are one group working to extend the technology to print reconstructive facial plates and even load-bearing artificial joints, such as hips, which could be customised for each patient.
In a way, you could even think of it as a facial and workout in one.
Even then, the error rate for facial-recognition software has proved to be as high as 10% in tests.
In addition, software allowed "complete control" over subtle facial elements such as blushing and even the diameter of Milo's nostrils, which he said could denote stress.
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There was even a hairdressing salon where men could have their facial hair shaved with an open razor, made possible because the barber's chair was set in such a position that there would be "no jolting".
The obvious ones are already being discussed extensively online, including how Facebook will make use of even more data, how it will interactive with their facial recognition software, and the lowering of tolerances to sharing everything with a huge online data warehouse.
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Even with my broken Arabic, his mix of wit, facial expressions and physical humor amused me endlessly.
"We saw a steeper decline in heart rate and a faster physiological stress recovery when they were smiling, " even though the participants weren't aware they were making facial expressions, says Sarah Pressman, co-author of the study and an assistant psychology professor at University of California, Irvine.
We do not only analyze emotional expressions but also measure eye tracking, behavior, facial recognition, attention time, head pose, and even more in the near future.
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You can watch music videos on a 50-inch plasma TV in the MTV Booth, or go gaming at the XBOX Kinect Room, a new sports experience that uses your voice and facial expressions to play table tennis, beach volley and even participate in track and field events.
The software - which can be used to assist police inquiries into people who have been missing for many years - is able to manipulate facial images to change the age, sex, race or even perceived personality attributes of an individual.
Males and females even doing it during the mating period, and they end up with these little facial injuries and that seems to be the way that the tumor cells are transferred from crumbly friable tumors on the face of one devil into the facial wounds on another devil.
And your facial expressions can also act as an implicit way of issuing commands to the TV without you even thinking about it.
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