Tuesday, November 26, 2002


From The Darwin-Awards Dept:

Cell Phones for the Deaf [Slashdot]

The idea is to translate spoken words into lip movements, so the deaf can lip-read.

This won't fly, pure and simple. First, it'll require some pretty big computing power. Secondly, speech-reading is very hard, and really works best if you also have audio to go along with it.

Now, if this also did speech to text, that would be cool. It would be also interesting for persons of normal hearing as a quasi-video-phone.

Another question: even if you do reduce it all down to mathematics, that still would be lot of data to transfer wirelessly... right?





From the Does-It-Do-XML-RPC-Too Dept:

WebObjects 5.2 Adds Web Services [Stepwise]

InfoWorld sounds surprisingly upbeat in this whole article.





From the Feature-Request Dept:

It would be nice to define what time a post is made to your blog.

Example: Thanksgiving is coming up, and I want to wish everybody a Happy Thanksgiving. 'Cept I'll probably be too sleepy to actually do anything about it.

Of course, like everything Radio, this would work best with an always-on net connection.

You could probably steal some code from MailToTheFuture, as it was probably written in "Frontier".

This might be easy, with some of the XML-RPC interfaces baked into "Radio". Then again, it may not be.