Tag: FACE

What would you do? You're sitting on top of an innovation that would rock the world. This particular invention would change the entire make-up of both the virtual and real worlds -- in fact, it would inexorably merge them together, for better or worse. I am of course talking about face recognition. Face recognition already exists -- be it to biometrically to open doors, or ostensibly as a ...

Don't you just hate it when you sign up on a forum or blog comment system and everyone has cool avatars, but you don't? If you aren't too picky about it, why not just punch your name into Turn Your Name Into a Face, and let it come up with something for you out of 100,000 possible faces. Now, granted, the options may leave a bit to be desired; they're all black pixel art on a random pale ...

Though it is currently accessible only to a closed set of beta testers, it seems the 22 minds behind Polar Rose are trying to create a sort of "Google" for people pictures -- a system that is always indexing visual information. But that's only the beginning of the service. Beta testers have recently been given access to an Internet Explorer and Firefox plug-in that will scan faces on a loaded ...

Have you ever wanted to see what your face looks like on Borat's body? Curious to see if you would have been a good subject for the Mona Lisa? FACEinHOLE lets you put your face in a variety of "scenarios" either with a webcam or a .jpg. Select a scene, choose "Webcam" to enable the Flash webcam application (you may then have to right click in the application, choose "settings" and choose the ...