Last update: Thu Apr 3 2008 09:07:58

Go go gadget goggles

An intelligent pair of goggles has been developed that record everything you see and enable you to find missing belongings.

Its Japanese inventors also say the goggles can identify objects.

If you are looking for a missing key or a cell phone or do not know the breed of a flower you are looking at, just ask the intelligent goggle and everything will be revealed in seconds, it is claimed.

A camera is attached on the "AI (Artificial Intelligence) goggle" and it records everything you see. A computer monitor attached to the other side of the goggle shows the footage in real time.

Along with the footage, the monitor also displays text information of what the goggle has identified the objects to be. This is done by matching it to its database stocked in a computer connected to the goggle.

Recorded footage can also be played back anytime just by singling out the word of the object you want to search.

Tatsuya Harada, Assistant Professor at Tokyo University School of Information Science and Technology, said: "When you have no idea where you last placed your glasses or cell phone, it helps you find them if you just type the word of what you are looking for."

The goggles can apparently also identify some objects it has never seen by comparing it to similar objects from its database.

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