Wigs have been incredibly useful to many people over the years but could they be the future of wearable technology? It seems unlikely that a toupee could be the next big thing but that is what the, ahem, bigwigs at Sony seem to think. A device they have considered making has been called a SmartWig and Sony has already filed a patent for it. It should really be called the...
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The day that a computer learns common sense may very well be the day the world changes forever. Gulp, it could happen soon thanks to a computer program being run at Carnegie Mellon University. The computer program in question is rather scarily named NEIL. Actually, Neil isn’t all that scary a name but it stands for Never Ending Image Learner, which is a little more worrying....
A new study just released by British Gas suggests that by 2030 we will have considerably more gadgets in our homes and that some of them will help UK homeowners save millions of pounds off our energy bills. The report was put together with the help of The Future Foundation and it suggests the following: By 2030 we can expect to have 51 gadgets in our home, compared to...