Realistic Face Masks

With halloween coming up and more face transplants occurring to address severe facial disfigurement, it was only a matter of time when a commercial company can recreate a 3-dimensional replica of a person's face. Unlike medical facial transplants which creates a face that's a cross between the donor face and the patient's face prior to disfigurement, these faces are perfect replicas down to scars, blood vessels, skin pores, etc. Well, there's a Japanese company called Real-f…

10/13/2011 0

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Robotic Mouth Sings the "Natural" Way

When it comes to robotics, the sounds they make is either due to the machinery that runs them or an electronic recording that comes out of a speaker. Well, there's a scientist, Hideyuki Sawada , who is working on a robotic "mouth" that produces sound the same way humans do. - Lungs to power the voice using airflow - Vocal cords to create the noise to create a voice - Pharynx (Throat) to create the space and harmonic overtones that affect the "quality" of the voice …

7/18/2011 0

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Washington Post: Perfect Pitch CAN Be Taught?!!

There is a fascinating article in the July 27, 2009 edition of the Wasington Post on page A8 entitled " An Elusive Musical Gift Could Be at Children's Fingertips ." This article elucidates a technique to teach any child to have perfect pitch, the ability to identify a note simply by hearing it. The technique is called "Eguchi Method" and developed by Kazuko Eguchi who developed it 40 years ago in Japan. In essence, the technique, in order to be successful, must start bef…

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