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Hands-Free Computing
Gadgets Your PopSci correspondents filter through the Web 2.0 chaff This week everyone's at the Web 2.0 Expo at New York City's Javits Center. Abby reported on a technology that makes your computer...
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New Artificial Larynx Does Away With Dreaded 'Robot Voice'
Technology For decades, people with vocal cord problems could only hope to communicate in the cold, robotic voice provided by a mechanical larynx. The search for a more lifelike, and… For decades,...
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Roger Ebert to Debut His Miraculous New Voice Synthesizer Today
Gadgets Analyzing his voice recorded on countless DVD commentaries, CereProc has created software to allow Roger Ebert to speak again using his own voice In 2006, famed film critic Roger Ebert lost...
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Google Translate Hits the iPhone App Store
Technology Google Translate, the amazing app that takes speech or text and outputs into any of over 50 languages (including Icelandic, Haitian Creole, and Maltese), is finally available… Google...
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Moaning Mouth-Bot Learns to Croon, Is Even Creepier Than Ever
Technology Headphones on, everyone. The moaning mouth 'bot is back, this time to sing you a Japanese nursery rhyme. (Freaking you out is a side effect, not the main goal.) Hideyuki… Headphones on,...
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Apple's New iPad: The Screen Is Better, and It's Faster
Gadgets Apple just announced the newest iPad, which will be called the iPad, and not the iPad 3 or iPad HD or iPad: Eddie Bauer Edition or with any other modifier. The big hits: it's… Apple just...
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Audio: Gibbons On Helium Sing Soprano
Science Researchers have just discovered that gibbons not only compete with our top ranks of singers--they have the technique down pat with almost no effort. How did we find this… Researchers have...
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This Voice-Activated Organizing Robot Makes Sure You'll Never Lose A Screw
DIY Danh Trinh built StorageBot to keep track of easily lost workshop parts. Even better, it responds to the sound of his voice. Over 25 years, Danh Trinh had amassed thousands of screws, hinges, and...
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Boys Now Hitting Puberty Earlier, Reshuffling Boys' Choirs
Science Whither the 14-year-old soprano boy? You might have heard about girls entering puberty earlier now than in the past, thanks to a yet-unclear combination of better nutrition and exposure to...
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'Mr. Robot' Creator Explains What's Really Going On In Elliot's Mind
Entertainment Sam Esmail, creator of the hit summer hacker drama, talks drugs and mental illness in our Q&A The surprise television hit of the summer, and arguably of the year, is USA Network’s...
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