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Close on the heels of Yahoo launching their own search engine comes the: Yahoo Keyword Density Analysis Comparison to Google. Interesting.
Here's the (so far uninteresting) /. discussion.
What demographic group spends the most hours per week playing on line video games? The answer might surprise you.
I was thinking about this yesterday: using a cameraphone as a scanner:
NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology have devloped technology which uses movie recordings to produce high quality images, on par with those of a scanner. This technology will be aimed at cellular phones and video cameras.My guess is this is a little way off, but that will be seriously useful. Even if it could just do business cards (with some OCR) it would rule.
The technique involves recording a part of the subject to a movie, while moving the camera; the "Mosaicing Technology" analyzes the moving image and estimates the three-dimensional position of the subject, and under the supervision of the "Ultra Resolution Technology," the joining points of the image are deleted, thereby optimizing it so that even low resolution cameras can produce scanner like output. In other words, even cellular phones and video cameras can produce high quality images.