BBC News once reported that the painting of Mona Lisa was analyzed by a University of Amsterdam computer using “emotion recognition” software. The result showed that she was “83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry”. Now, how cool would it be if we are all able to get our hands on that software? Just imagine what we can use it for. You can analyze some photos of your spouse or partner and see what their emotions were when they were taking photos with you.
GladOrSad.com will launch this September 2007 and will be available to the public. It is a coorperation between ilse media and University Van Amsterdam to bring similar emotion recognition software to the public.
How does it work?
When we smile, frown or grimace, thousands of tiny facial muscles are at work. Emotion-recognition software, or ERS, creates a 3-D face map, pinpointing 12 key trigger areas like eye and mouth corners.
Then a face-tracking algorithm matches the movements to six basic expression patterns, corresponding to anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust and happiness, or a mixture of them.
I’ll wait for the launch and see if it’s worth a review. There are photos of Bush, Michael Jackson and Ronaldinho analyzed by the software. Do check it out and have a good laugh.
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Well, at least boon thinks that way. On a closer inspection, ShowOrNot does have some of the characteristics of Friendster and Youtube combined.
One thing ShowOrNot is but neither Friendster nor Youtube are is that ShowOrNot is our local Malaysian “product”. A whois check on the domain name showed that it was only registered less than a month ago. The last time I checked, there were only 132 members registered and less than 200 videos uploaded. The website is new so I expect the numbers to grow rapidly in the coming weeks.
I saw the video uploaded by one of the members below. It’s the famous/notorious Namewee, the Negarakuku singer. Anyway, this is an unplugged and censored version of the Muar Chinese song. Pay extra attention after 1 minute 30 seconds into the video. I laughed real hard even after watching it a few times.
They have a new logo. Mr old non-web-2.0 stickman has a make over! For some reason, they’ve decided to break the stickman in two (bottom half gone). And yes, they have gradients now. *hinting to someone*
The whole front page gets a good make over as well. Can’t see much from the screenshot below though. Shit! Where the hell did my the two girls go!?!?!?
Anyway, enjoy the presentation below. I have no idea where it came from though. I wonder when they’ll launch the new Nuffnang 2.0. I can’t wait to see the inside.
What do chair, stool, sofa and bench have in common? We sit on them! Apart from that, there are also other things we do on them such as we stand, jump and even fart (pronounce properly, no pun intended) on them. Throughout our lives, we have put immense pressure and stress on the things we sit that I’m sure some of us might have even broke one or two of them.
We get to do all those nasty things to them simply because they can’t talk back to us even when we’re “hurting” them. The creators of the fuwa pica project has just changed that. Now, be prepared for the chairs to fight back!
Fuwapica is a high-tech chair that emits light when it senses pressure on it. The colour of the light changes according to the weight/pressure. Someone light sitting on it may produce a blue light while it changes to darker colours like red when someone heavy sits on it.
Contrary to the title of the article Chair changes colour if you’re fat, the chair doesn’t change colour to indicate if you’re fat but if you’re heavy. To judge if a person is fat, you will need to compare the person’s BMI and body composition, not by weight alone.
Having said that, I’m sure you’ll feel a bit awkward when your chair emits a darker light compared to the others when in the same room. (Check out this photo and you’ll know what I mean)
BBC News once reported that the painting of Mona Lisa was analyzed by a University of Amsterdam computer using “emotion recognition” software. The result showed that she was “83% happy, 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry”. Now, how cool would it be if we are all able to get our hands on that software? Just imagine what we can use it for. You can analyze some photos of your spouse or partner and see what their emotions were when they were taking photos with you. 
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What do chair, stool, sofa and bench have in common? We sit on them! Apart from that, there are also other things we do on them such as we stand, jump and even fart (pronounce properly, no pun intended) on them. Throughout our lives, we have put immense pressure and stress on the things we sit that I’m sure some of us might have even broke one or two of them.
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