Riya - Photo Search

Riya – Photo Search [http://www.riya.com/] introduces a face recognition technology that automatically tags people in photos, enabling easy & efficient photo search in albums or the web. Since not all photos are people-centric, I wonder if it could as well recognize and tag objects, locations and landscape in…

Voice phone calls to be free within years

Voice phone calls to be free within years [http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&storyid=2005-10-20T145634Z_01_SCH009971_RTRUKOC_0_US-TELECOMS-EBAY-SKYPE.xml] , says eBay CEO. And that’s from someone who paid $4.1 billion a few weeks back for a yet-to-profit VoIP service [http://www.…

sodaplay

sodaplay [http://www.sodaplay.com/] is a wire-frame constructor and simulation modeller to create fluid, lifelike creatures that walk, roll and slink across the screen.…

The Life and Art of Charlie Chaplin

Yesterday night, SBS featured a documentary on Charlie Chaplin [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin] (1889-1977). Said to be an insight into one of the greatest figures of world cinema, from acclaimed documentary filmmaker Robert Schickel. It was a fascinating documentary — a great blend of film clips, rare footage…

Amount of sleep needed

Just something I’ve been wondering for a while — does the amount of sleep vary for each person? > Everyone’s individual sleep needs vary. In general, most healthy adults are built for 16 hours of wakefulness and need an average of eight hours of sleep a night. However, some…