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...More: www.toshiba.co.jp/about/press/ 2005_05/pr2001.htm Robots may not invade anytime soon, but there's no denying that they're getting smarter. The ball-shaped ApriAlpha uses advanced voice-recognition technology to distinguish between voices coming from different locations. When Alpha hears a voice, it fixes its steely digital-camera eye on the person speaking. The taller ApriAttenda can identify a person in a crowd by the color of his clothes and shape of his body, and then follow its target. It even bleeps when it loses track of its subject. Next Product: Walkie Bits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Best Inventions 2005: Bot Crazy | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...sound of simulated gunfire and the release of plumes of smoke when you score a "hit" on an enemy aircraft. After the fray, pilots will demonstrate some of the slicker moves required in air combat, including tail slides, inverted spins and loop-the-loops, subjecting you to more eye-popping G-forces than you ever thought possible. And just before you regain terra firma, you'll enjoy a fly-past at just over 9 m above the terminal deck, so that friends and relatives can take pictures. The flight home by Boeing or Airbus may seem interminably tedious by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Air Heads | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...place in France, consider only the incomprehension and inertness of the official French response. The President didn't say a word for 10 days. The state of emergency wasn't declared until Day 13. Meanwhile, the Interior Minister and Prime Minister offered dueling slogans and empty promises, with an eye more on their upcoming presidential contest than on the fire this time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What the Uprising Generation Wants | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...government didn't want him to see. But from what he was allowed to witness, he strings together a series of remarkable scenes. Many are seemingly trivial-a hotel worker slowly crushing a fly underfoot, a propaganda truck blaring encouragement to construction workers-but when seen through the keen eye of a man who spent his workdays pondering the facial expressions of animated bears, they give rare insight into life beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Not-So-Funny Pages | 11/13/2005 | See Source »

...disaster. That made me realize that in any hour of need, my country, my nation, my Pakistan shall not fail. Agha Ali Murtaza Lahore, Pakistan The west perceives us Muslims in general and Pakistanis in particular as terrorists. Catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina and the Kashmir earthquake can serve as eye-openers. In both cases, governmental bureaucratic structures failed terribly. But if you saw TV coverage after the quake, you could not miss the fact that Pakistanis were painstakingly helping their fellow citizens as soon as they could. The nation has been continuously assisting the victims by providing them with food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living Better Longer | 11/12/2005 | See Source »

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