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[Mulboyne]

Team works on baby emotion translator
Researchers at Japan's Nagasaki University School of Medicine have launched a project to develop a device to read babies' emotions from their facial expressions, body temperatures and other physical cues. A research team led by Kazuyuki Shinohara, a neurobiology professor, launched the project with support from the independent Japan Science and Technology Agency to come up with an "expression-translating" device...more...

[Mulboyne]

Sify.com: Gadget promises to translate baby talk
...Shinohara's group has been conducting experiments involving mothers and their babies by monitoring the infants' cries, facial expressions and body temperature changes in a project backed by the government-subsidized Japan Science and Technology Agency. "We are trying to read babies' faces numerically such as the distance between eyebrows and the nose tip," Shinohara tells AFP. As for other clues on what babies mean to say, researchers are also analysing whether high or low frequencies in the sound of the cries show they want specific things. The team is also monitoring the temperatures of babies' bodies, mostly the face, through thermography. Shinohara says changes in temperature normally indicate particular desires. The professor, who declined to elaborate on his conclusions or the shape of the gadget pending patenting, aims to launch the device by mid-2006. "The technology will be completed by around summer this year," he says. "Commercialisation will likely come in spring or summer of next year as it is expected to take some time to make the device smaller." The product would be for use at both medical institutions and in homes. The professor says he wants to make the price for a home-use version below $95...more...

[dimwit]

[Kuang_Grade]

[kotatsuneko]

thing about the simpsons tho, is that, essentially, its just a big budget urusei yatsura rip off, without the good bits innit?

[kurohinge1]

Sify.com: Gadget promises to translate baby talk
... As for other clues on what babies mean to say, researchers are also analysing whether high or low frequencies in the sound of the cries show they want specific things. The team is also monitoring the temperatures of babies' bodies, mostly the face, through thermography. Shinohara says changes in temperature normally indicate particular desires ...

Let me introduce you to the incredibly sophisticated baby translating tools I received completely free at birth. Although they require little maintenance, learning how to use them to their full potential is quite an art ...

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