Ever wonder how good looking, or in the case of this app, how UGLY you are? With the Ugly Meter app foriPhone, you can find out for yourself.
Put together by the developers known simply as the ‘Dapper Gentlemen’, this light-hearted app uses the built-in camera in youriPhoneto analyze facial pictures for levels of ugliness. Wonderful.
When taking a picture for analysis, the app directs you with a guide to help you line up your facial features. Obviously, ensuring a proper picture is taken is key for giving you the low-down on the ugliness meter
Playing a key role in the development of this “tactile robotic skin” is Peratech's patentedQuantum Tunnelling Composites, or “QTC” materials, which provide “a measured response to force and/or touch by changing electrical resistance -- much as a dimmer light switch controls a light bulb.”
According to the article, Peratech's QTC technology has already been used by NASA for its Robonaut device, and by Shadow Robot in the UK, which makes the world's most advanced robotic hand. This project with MIT, however, is a “world first in enabling a human to interact through touch across the body of a robot much as they would with another human.”
I have been trying for the life of me to figure out what the big fuss is about this new technology called 'android'. Regardless of what it is, if you dont own it by christmas, you probably are not worth much as a human being. That much is obvious from the get go. Unfortunately for me, the technology came out right after I signed my life away to another digital watchdog... Which became obsolete before I made it to the self-checkout (the real android).
In fact, I have researched this android issue several times, couldnt figure out what the big deal was and said fk it... like 4 or 5 times! I kept coming back because apparently it is a BIG DEAL, which gets bigger by the day... Yet to this day dont understand what all the fuss is about. And seriously if you are going to make a technology called android I am entitled to expect nothing less than an inorganic clone of a human being as expressed in the definition of Android.
Def- 'an automaton that resembles a human being'
Right O! The last I checked these phones do not resemble a human being... But I was willing to overlook that part and see if there were any other anthropomorphic characteristics to the phone.
There are none.
'Android' cannot talk with you, it is not an automaton, nor does it resemble the psychology of an autonomous being in anyway whatsoever, in fact the technology doesnt offer anything that couldnt already be done on a their-Phone or my trusty touch screen knock off, except allowing a customizable interface, with thousands of useless applications, faster internet speeds and a few other upgrades, and of course trademarking a word thats way cooler then the technology itself. In geek speak it is the linux of the phone world. But an "android". Not quite... in fact not at all!!! Its like making a television called 'Cyborg' that has a customizable menu... The relationship of which should be obvious to anyone.
Regardless, no matter where I go I am forced to endure commercials, periodicals and news reports that are jabbering on about this boring as fk technology as if its best thing since sex in your parents bedroom while they are in the living room. The way I see it, this whole Android concept is foreshadowing something... its very likely that in the future (in a few months) your phone will replace your mind entirely. YOU (your body) will simply carry it. Kind of like that dude "Krange" (you know... from the ninja turtles cartoon) only your brain will be the phone... You will reference it for guidance for everything you do...
Once we have been digitally rendered into the grid in full via this plethora of applications, personalization and self-guiding (augmented reality autopilot technology) and our consciousness has devolved into solely being used to monitor the nanodexterity of our texting thumbs, we will then be finally at one with the MACROchip, we will concede our own individual bits (brains) of conciousness to the NWO macroconsciousness... the global ziomind... which will become self-aware... and deem itself the chosen planet of the universe...