Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

Hunt ghosts with Snooperscope smartphone night vision lens by Tim Hornyak, cnet.com This magnetic device lets you act like a creepy spy, observe nocturnal wildlife, or see Kinect infrared dots. Maybe you want to check out what­ev­er it was that just went bump in the night. Or maybe you just want to see things in … Continue reading Snooperscope iPhone night vision lens

Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

How a Kinect hack is turning documentary film on its head By Tom Cheshire, wired.co.uk Magazine This arti­cle was taken from the Decem­ber 2012 issue of Wired mag­a­zine. Be the first to read Wired’s arti­cles in print before they’re post­ed online, and get your hands on loads of addi­tion­al con­tent by sub­scrib­ing… RT @WiredUK: How … Continue reading Ethnographic documentary filmmaking with a kinect

Parakeet: Improving speech recognition using user feedback

The problem with current speech recognition software (and why it is still maddeningly inaccurate sometimes) is that it cannot learn and receive immediate feedback from users as occurs in natural speech. Now, computational linguists are developing new approaches which allow this to happen, leading to much higher accuracy rates. Monitor: Correct me if I'm wrong... … Continue reading Parakeet: Improving speech recognition using user feedback