3-D Facial Recognition Software

Researcher Lijun Yin, an associate professor of computer science at Binghamton University, has been working on a new universal algorithm to create a digital reading of the human face to identify specific human emotions.  “Many scientists are working on similar issues, we are unique in our three-dimensional approach,” Yin stated. The Pipe Dream website reported…

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Ask The Expert: Your Questions to Dr. Matsumoto Part 4

Back by popular demand, we’ve brought back your questions answered by Dr. Matsumoto. Our most recent question and answer series was in February 2011. You can find questions and answers here. We also did the question and answer series back in February of 2010. We asked you, the readers, to ask specific questions they may…

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Botox for Kids?

At first you might think that this is a joke, but its not.  A San Francisco mom recently injected botox into her 8 year-old daughter. ABC News has reported on this strange  event of a mother doing something becuse a “child” wants it in spite of what is best for the child. Kerry, the girl’s…

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L.A. Noire Video Game becoming a Book Series?

L.A. Noire, scheduled to be released May 17, 2011, is a  detective thriller video game set against the backdrop of Los Angeles in the post-war years of the late 1940s. According to WorthPlaying .com this interactive realistic detective thriller, with MotionScan technology that  incorporates microexpressions on its characters,  is now set to become a book…

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