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Building recognition


A mobile phone app can be used to identify buildings globally

Ever walked around a city and wondered what building you were looking at? A new application that can be used on most handsets could help.
After taking a picture of the building, this is uploaded and a match sought in a database.
Details of the handset's rough position, measured by either GPS or just the cell phone area someone happens to be in, helps the database cut down the number of possible matches.

All about the mood

Software designed for cars could soon be able to detect a driver's mood and adapt accordingly.


Will feelings ever be on display as someone types on their PC?

Using a camera, the system picks up head movement and facial expression, another infra-red camera spies muscle tension, and a microphone listens out for singing.
In the future, the car seat could detect and adapt to posture, while the steering wheel would monitor how much someone is sweating and their heart rate.

If the driver is alert, the car slips into sports mode. If they are nodding off it will winds down a window to wake them up.

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