Friday, July 01, 2005

Chatting to Cleopatra?

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=224429&sid=ENV&ssid=27
Some trivia, for those of you that crave it. Ishikawa Optics and Arts Corp. of Tokyo have developed a mannequin with a built-in projector that can resemble a face of the user's choice: "The life-size, made-to-order 'chatty' is a mannequin with a face that is an empty screen until turned on to play DVD images from inside the body. If one is in the mood for conversation, sound can come from a separate speaker. 'It is a device that can show a person's face, looks and mouth movements,' said the developer, . 'It forms realistic images as if he or she were really talking to you.' Company president Jun Ishikawa said he wanted to produce historical figures such as ancient Egyptian Queen Cleopatra".

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