The device, called the Mosquito (“It’s small and annoying,” Mr. Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he says, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no one older than 30. The sound is designed to so irritate young people that after several minutes, they cannot stand it and go away.

Field tests at a grocery store in Barry, South Wales, and a shop in Stapleton’s home town of Merthyr Tydfil have proved successful, with rowdy yobs driven from the premises.

What’s the Buzz? Rowdy Teenagers Don’t Want to Hear It - New York Times

http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6248.html

Neurologer ved Washington University bruker hjerneskanning til å forutse om en person vil klare et videospill eller ikke.

Eleven seconds before volunteers played the game — discriminating the direction of a field of moving dots — scientists showed them a hint: an arrow pointing to where the moving dots were likely to appear. The dots were visible only for one-fifth of a second and therefore were easy to miss if a subject was not paying attention to the right area.After the hint and prior to the appearance of the moving dots, researchers scanned the volunteers with functional brain imaging, which reveals increases in blood flow to different brain areas indicative of increased activity in those regions. Based on brain activity patterns that reflected whether the subjects used the hint or not, scientists found they could frequently predict whether a volunteer’s response would be right or wrong before the volunteers even had a chance to try to see the dots.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/fashion/thursdaystyles/01addict.html?ex=1291093200&en=1a89129a0787f083&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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These specialists estimate that 6 percent to 10 percent of the approximately 189 million Internet users in this country [USA] have a dependency that can be as destructive as alcoholism and drug addiction, and they are rushing to treat it. Yet some in the field remain skeptical that heavy use of the Internet qualifies as a legitimate addiction, and one academic expert called it a fad illness.

Skype - which is being acquired eBay for $2.6bn - is to offer video calls as part of the latest version of its internet telephony software.

Released today, the beta version of Skype 2.0 is new and improved with “enhanced features that allow people to stay in touch and express themselves online”.

Key to that is Skype Video, which enables its 70m or so users to download software that will enable them to see the person they’re calling.

Skype does video VoIP | The Register

Ser ut som om den foreløpig bare er klar i windoze utgave.

Skype 2.0 beta (windows)

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No, It’s Really Fundue - Gizmodo

A very small and ultra-nice robot that cleans up your mess, just like a Swiffer. Cleaning the floor is not its primary function, but it can do that too. This is basically a companion robot that makes sure your place is clean, it handles your emails, it acts as a security systen and it can even recognize you.

Akihabara News - Bandai’s Swiffer Robot, BN-17 (IREX 2005)

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/worst_case_scenario

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