Mask-bot: A robot with a human face, projected. Looks deceptively just like real human face.

via spacedaily.com

Mask-bot will influence the way in which we humans communicate with robots in the future,"

prototype of a new robot face that a team at the Institute for Cognitive Systems (ICS) at TU Munchen has developed in collaboration with a group in Japan

A huge amount of research worldwide is still being channeled into the development of programs that enable robots to listen and understand humans in real time and make appropriate responses

The Munich researchers are already working on the next generation. Mask-bot 2 will see the mask, projector and computer control system all contained inside a mobile robot.

Whereas the first prototype cost just under EUR 3,000, costs for the successor model should come in at around EUR 400.

Besides video conferencing, "These systems could soon be used as companions for older people who spend a lot of time on their own,"

Bottled Water and Some of the very chemicals added to water to guard your health -especially chlorine and fluoride-may be doing more harm than good.

via nofluoride.com

Choose the bottled water labeled as fluoride low content of 0.2 ppm or less.

chlorine
Chlorine is added to drinking water to keep it bacteria- free. But it also reacts with organic material creating chloroform, trihalomethanes (THMs) and other chlorination disinfection byproducts (CBPs) and these are an strongly linked with cancer.

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this was discovered to be a problem with chlorinated public pools also - chlorine is OK, but it reacts with biological residues in the water, and resulting sustances are carcinogenic.
In 1992, the American Medical Association published statistics showing nearly 28 percent of all cancers of the intestines and 18 percent of all cancers of the bladder can be traced to chlorinated water. More than a dozen subsequent studies confirm this finding.

The EPA agency has ordered cities and towns across the United States to start reducing levels of this compound in drinking water- but chlorination will continue, even though water also can be disinfected with ultraviolet light or ozone without creating CBPs.

Ozone is used in some European cities-Amsterdam, Paris, Berlin, Munich and others-but chlorination continues to be the norm on this continent.

fluoride
Fluoride is added to 60 percent of US and 40 percent of Canadian tap water to reduce tooth decay. However, scientists say that actually swallowing this toxin offers virtually no dental advantage.

"You may as well swish with fluoridated tap water and spit it out. That's how it works," topically - on contact

one view:
"Fluoride causes more cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical." Fluoride is further linked to osteoporosis, hip frachlre, memory and neurological impairment and kidney disorders.

Here's a sampling of bottled water brands that are fluoride-free:

Apani Purifie ** Aqua Panna ** Arrowhead ** Calistoga Spring ** Crystal Geyser ** Deer Park North ** Deer Park South ** Great Bear ** Hinkley & Schmidt ** Ice Mountain Keeper Springs ** Loon Country Natural Spring ** NARA International Himalayan Spring Ozarka ** Penta ** Poland Spring Snow Valley Mountain ** Sparkletts