I live and work in Los Angeles, the land of celebrities and special effects, where I’ve witnessed the battle for big box-office draws and learned something from it. As product innovators, we also strive to create standout products ...READ»
Turns out we really do share because we care. A new study shows that social sharing happens the most when we're emotionally aroused--in either a positive or negative way--by what we're looking at. READ»
Psychologists say the infinity of human emotion can be boiled down to six basic feelings: joy, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. In his "Emoticons" project, designer Tomas Ekström is interested in extracting the same kind ...READ»
The one thing robots, despite ever-increasing powers, tend not do very well is emote--just think of Asimo's blank face and you'll see what I mean. But here come Noby and M3-Kindy to change that ... and seriously creep you out. The two ...READ»
Emotion-detecting software isn't new--Sony, for example, recently filed a patent for a "laughter detection" system--but a San Francisco-based startup called Affective Interfaces, launched at TechCrunch50, claims that it has ...READ»
Tina Turner made a singing comeback in 1984 with her hit song, "What's Love Got to Do with It?"
My husband, a family law specialist in San Francisco has recently
worked with some male clients, who I call alpha males, ...READ»
If a couple of new ideas on the personal media player front become mainstream, then it's possible that your next-gen MP3 player will be able to sense your mood. And, in a limited way, it'll empathize by choosing appropriate ...READ»
At the 2009 World Haptics Conference last month, Philips demonstrated an intriguing project: An "Emotion Shirt" that simulates the body's emotional responses. As Paul Lemmens, a cognitive scientist in Philips's User ...READ»
Working in MIT's Media Lab Personal Robotics Group must be a good gig--they get to create and scientifically "play about with" some fantastic stuff, such as the Huggable care-over-telepresence robot. But Tofu, the lab's latest ...READ»
