With FaceTools, end users can automatically identify individuals, capture fast moving objects, use enhanced user interfaces via real-time tracking of pupils, and take flawless pictures even under sub-optimum light or color balance conditions.

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That alone would be pretty handy -- but the SmartThings team decided to take it a step further by building SmartApps, that is, applications for further customizing how SmartThings devices (and the user) interact with the every day objects they're attached to.

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The difference here makes it possible for an enterprise user to refer to or incorporate other social objects in the enterprise social environment, such as related files, videos, other discussions, into this space.

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We know this is not ideal for user, but it means there are 'shared objects' between the two codebases which require users allow third party sites (any other domain including subdomains) access to local storage.

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By reading user brainwaves, the headset makes it possible to control virtual objects, and even physical electronics, with your thoughts.

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The LEXID (Lobster Eye X-ray Imaging Device) functions by "radiating objects with tiny amounts of X-ray energy, " subsequently allowing its user to see behind steel, wood or concrete.

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