amazing & random MAZ on 05 Dec 2007
Daily Archive for "Wednesday, December 5th, 2007"
amazing & random MAZ on 05 Dec 2007
Tallest flagpoles in the world
amazing & japan & japan news & technology MAZ on 05 Dec 2007
Chimpanzee smarter than college students?!?!
This video is of AI who has been learning linguistic skills since 1978 at the Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University. He is faster than a group of nine able-minded college students on a touchscreen test bed that resembles the best-selling DS game.
Via RGS
google & news MAZ on 05 Dec 2007
Are humans getting dumber??? The Google trends of 2007 are out!
Technology and entertainment topped Google Inc’s searches in 2007, with the iPhone grabbing the No. 1 slot on a list of the fastest-rising search terms in the United States, the company said on Tuesday.
“iPhone, of course, is a word very few people typed in a search box in 2006,” said Marissa Mayer of Google, an Internet search engine. “It didn’t exist.”
Apple rolled out the iPhone, which is a mobile phone, music and video player and Internet browser device, in the United States last summer.
Four social networking sites made the top 10, including Webkinz, which grabbed the No. 2 slot. Webkinz is a stuffed animal that customers can register and play with online.
Celebrity news Web site TMZ ranked third, while transformer toys took the No. 4 slot.
Transformers are the wildly popular toys that shift their shapes, for example from cars to alien robots, and they got a big boost from the 2007 hit movie “Transformers.”
“There’s a lot of interest in the celebrity culture, television and movies,” said Mayer.
YouTube, the video-sharing Web site, grabbed the No. 5 spot while Club Penguin, a networking site for children, came in No. 6. Social networking site MySpace took the No. 7 slot. Heroes, Facebook and Anna Nicole Smith rounded out the top 10.
