Kim Peek, the real Rain Man whose almost unimaginable powers of memory were coupled with severe disabilities and who inspired the Oscar-winning film role played by Dustin Hoffman, has died of a heart attack in his home town of Salt Lake City, aged 58.
Peek has been called a “mega-savant” for his ability to memorise to the word up to 12,000 books, including the Bible and the Book of Mormon. He could read two pages in about 10 seconds – the right page with his right eye and the left simultaneously with his left eye.
He knew phone books by heart, and could tell you what day of the week a particular date fell upon going back decades. One of his party tricks was to tell strangers the names of the people who used to live next door to them years ago.
At the same time, though, he had deep disabilities and relied on his father Fran for help dressing, brushing his hair and other simple motor skills.
News of his death led to an outpouring of expressions of gratitude from thousands of parents of disabled children who said that the film, and Peek’s many public appearances that followed it, had given them comfort and hope. “Kim taught us something about human potential beyond what most of us can even imagine let alone explain,” said one commentator on his local paper, Deseret News.
Peek was born on 11 November 1951 with damage to the cerebellum; the corpus callosum, the large bundle of nerves that connects the left and right hemispheres, was also missing.
At the age of two his severe disabilities almost landed him for life in an asylum.
HAHAHAHAHA i loled so hard over this article, because did you know most of xbox player are fat. so this is bad news for those fatfucks, i’m sorry you can’t hide behind your flirty avatar anymore.
Microsoft patent details technology to make 360′s avatars have same physical appearance as their real-world counterparts–and thereby promote physical fitness.
Microsoft patent details technology to make 360′s avatars have same physical appearance as their real-world counterparts–and thereby promote physical fitness.
more here: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6244419.html?tag=latestheadlines;title;2
hahaha I don’t know if it’ll helps you burns fat. it looks like fake abs lol
This is how it supposedly works:
In effect, the structure of the rubber belt is a large mesh grid that splits the dieter’s belly, side and back fat into easily manageable blobs. This allows for increased metabolic consumption of calories and raises the propensity for increased blood flow values. More blood flow = more heat = more burning of fat.
Not really, nothing compared to New webcam that iam going to create.. well someday.
I want to make new webcam that not only reconigze the skin tone, also it’ll reconigze the face texture/bones.
You know how our ancestor reconigze our race right? whether we are mongoloid, negroid or Aryan.
So the new webcam iam going to make is it’ll analized your face and skin tone (which is not really important)
and then *BANG!* it’ll show the result about what race you are.
Amazing isn’t?
Because you see, if you only reconigze the skin tone you’ll get the result that those Indians are negroid, and actually Indians are race Aryan.
ok enough rant
the original article:
HP: Our Webcams Are Not Racist
HP is responding to claims that the facial-tracking technology used by its Webcams is somehow racist.
A YouTube video uploaded earlier this month showed a Webcam, identified as being an HP model, failing to follow a face when the person on-screen was black. When a white woman stepped in front of the same camera, the facial-tracking system appeared to begin working properly.
"I think my blackness is interfering with the computer's ability to follow me," the man in the video said. "I'm going on record and I'm saying it: Hewlett-Packard computers are racist."
more here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/185234/hp_our_webcams_arent_racist.html?tk=rss_main
