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I have read a lot of science fiction. Although many are dickheads, science fiction writers come up with a lot of cool ideas for new technologies. One of my favourite has always been sub-vocal speech control, where you issue commands to a computer (usually in the heat of some kind of really intense lasgun battle) by forming key words with your tongue and vocal chords without moving your lips or making any noise. This morning I read that NASA have been working on the same idea.
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i guess science fiction is becoming science fact. </monotone>
damn. I need one of those. I’ve been screaming at my tv set for years and nothing’s happened.
HAHAH! FOOLISH SCIENTISTS! DONT THEY KNOW THAT SPACE ROBOTS ARE THE ONLY ANSWER!?
if its robots you’re after, check this out. Takes a while to load, but is well worth the wait.
matt, I quote from the website you link us too:
“Silently speaking these words, scientists conducted simple searches on the Internet by using a number chart representing the alphabet to control a Web browser program. ‘We took the alphabet and put it into a matrix – like a calendar. We numbered the columns and rows, and we could identify each letter with a pair of single-digit numbers,’ Jorgensen said. ‘So we silently spelled out *NASA* and then submitted it to a well-known Web search engine. We electronically numbered the Web pages that came up as search results. We used the numbers again to choose Web pages to examine. This proved we could browse the Web without touching a keyboard,’ Jorgensen explained.”
The crazy thing is, for years I have been searching the web using my mouse. Havn’t they heard of a mouse before?
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