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May 19, 2014 Sophie Weiner

“Silicon Feelings,” a strangely moving creation by Bradley Griffith, displays the emojis people tweet around the world in real-time on a spinning 3D globe. You won’t see every single emoji that gets tweeted: Griffith uses Emoji Tracker to determine the most popular icons at any given time, and tweets without location information attached get ignored. Still, it’s a […]

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March 6, 2014 Andy Cush

A group of Italian researches who have developed a Kinect-powered computer that can detect human emotion by analyzing bodily movements. New Scientist explains how it works. The system uses the Kinect camera to build a stick figure representation of a person that includes information on how their head, torso, hands and shoulders are moving. Software looks for […]

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