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Im hoping to summon the nanbaka fans with this Yamada wip, I think this will be my most difficult piece yet, but Im up for the challange, and Yamada deserves treatement like this anyway, Im planning to draw everybody from Building 8, but I dont have any ideas for Murakami or Tanaka rn,

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Inventan un dispositivo que te 'lee' los mensajes a base de vibrar en tu brazo

Inventan un dispositivo que te ‘lee’ los mensajes a base de vibrar en tu brazo

Un equipo de investigadores de Facebook ha desarrollado un wearable vibratorio que se coloca.[…][…] (eldiario.es)

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Facebook Rumored to Launch Two Advanced Smart Speakers in July

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Facebook’s Building 8 Is Working on Tech to Let You Type With Your Brain and Hear With Your Skin

Facebook’s annual developer conference took place this year on April 18th and 19th in San Jose, California and the company have shared its vision for the future of VR, 360-degree imaging, bots on Messenger, and more. One of the subjects of the conference was particularly interesting. Facebook unveiled a project from its secretive Building 8 research group that’s working to create a brain-computer interface that lets you type with your thoughts and hear through the skin.

This ambitious brain-computer-interface technology will one day let you communicate using only your mind, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

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What if you could type directly from your brain, asked Regina Dugan, the leader of Facebook’s secretive Building 8 hardware research group. She provided the first official hints about what her organization has been working on.

A silent speech system

These two projects focused on building new capabilities for communication Regina called a silent speech systems. It offers the convenience of speaking with your voice but the privacy of sending a text message. Over the next 2 years, Building 8 research group will develop systems that demonstrate the capability to type at 100 words per minute by decoding neural activity devoted to speech.

As currently there are no non-invasive technologies that can do this, they will work on developing a non-invasive system that could one day become a speech prosthetic for people with communication disorders.

Such a system could allow the deaf and blind to communicate more easily. The company already has 60 engineers working on the systems, including what Dugan called “a brain mouse,” but is just getting started.

Imagine the power such a capability would give to 780 million people around the world who cannot read or write but can think and feel – Regina Dugan

The second project is developing the hardware and software necessary to deliver language through the skin. It practically turning the two square meters of skin on the human body into a listening device. The firm has already demonstrated an “artificial cochlea” that can hear and is now working on using the sensors in the skin to interpret what is being said.

If we put these things together, it suggests one day not so far away it may be possible for me to think in Mandarin and for you to feel it instantly in Spanish, concluded Dugan.

On the other side, these projects raise hard questions related to patient privacy, as any brain-to-text system will essentially read a person’s unspoken thoughts. Also, such system could blur the definition between human and machine.

#BMITechnology, #Building8, #SilentSpeechInterfaces https://outoftheboxscience.com/tech/virtual-reality/facebooks-building-8-working-tech-let-type-brain-hear-skin/

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Facebook Is Secretly Working On Some Epic!!!

Facebook Is Secretly Working On Some Epic!!!

The facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has sky-high ambitions and is now planning to conquer the upcoming disruptive digital technologies which mean never-before-seen gadgets.

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Do you know that Facebook is secretly working on some epic? Well, that’s true.

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This is Facebook Is spotted constructing four gadgets confidentially.

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It is reported that Facebook’s ultra-secretive division…

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Building 8 el Nuevo Desafío de Facebook

Building 8 el Nuevo Desafío de Facebook

Building 8 el nuevo reto de la red social Facebook, con esta iniciativa quiere desafiar parámetros que lleven a realizar proyectos en realidad virtual.

La red social ha creado el laboratorio Building 8 para desarrollar productos de hardware y ha contratado a uno de los mejores ejecutivos de Google, Regina Dugan, para liderar el proyecto.

Facebook ha creado un laboratorio de investigación para…

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The Distillery Historic District, Toronto (No. 1)

The Distillery District is a historic and entertainment precinct located east of Downtown Toronto. It contains numerous cafés, restaurants, and shops housed within heritage buildings of the former Gooderham and Worts Distillery. The 13 acres (53,000 m2) district comprises more than 40 heritage buildings and 10 streets, and is the largest collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America. The district was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1988. The Gooderham and Worts Distillery was founded in 1832 and by the late 1860s was the largest distillery in the world. Once providing over 2 million US gallons (7,600,000 l) of whisky, mostly for export on the world market, the company was bought out in later years by rival Hiram Walker Co., another large Canadian distiller. Its location on the side of the Canadian National Railway mainline and its proximity to the mouth of the original route of the Don River outlet into Lake Ontario created a hard edge which separated the district from neighbouring communities. These did however, allow for a facilitated transport connection to the rest of Canada and the world and acted as Toronto's domination as an industrial centre or transshipping hub. With the deindustrialization of the surrounding area in the late 20th century, and the winding-down of the distillery operations, the district was left increasingly derelict. Surrounding industrial and commercial buildings and structures were often demolished, leaving the former distillery surrounded primarily by empty lots. Nonetheless, the closing of the remaining distillery operations in 1990 created redevelopment and investment opportunities for a district that contained the largest and best preserved collection of Victorian-era industrial architecture in North America. The economic recession of the early 1990s, however, and the resulting crash in residential condominium prices and office lease rates in downtown Toronto, delayed efforts to revitalize the district. Nonetheless, two residential condominium buildings were constructed on the periphery of the district during the late 1990s. While the site awaited redevelopment and reinvestment, the district's ambiance began to attract numerous film shoots. Since 1990, the site has served as a location for over 800 film and television productions, such as Due South.