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Upcoming App Tells You How Much Time Is Left on Traffic Lights

Jeremy Taylor — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 21:00:01 +0000

Researchers at MIT and Princeton have developed a smartphone app called SignalGuru that will tell drivers exactly how much time they have to make the next light. The app, which has been successfully tested in neighborhoods in the US and Singapore, uses dashboard-mounted smartphone cameras to record whether a light is green, yellow or red. When combined with traffic [...]

CLOO iPhone App Lets You Share Your Bathroom With Strangers [VIDEO]

Shauna Wright — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:00:26 +0000

One of our favorite niche smartphone apps is RunPee, which tells you the best time during a particular movie to excuse yourself to do something about that gallon-sized Diet Coke you drank when you first sat down. But what if the theater bathroom has a long line or looks like it hasn’t been cleaned since the Eisenhower administration? What if you’re running errands and there’s nary a Starbucks loo in sight?

That’s where CLOO comes in.

Software Can Detect Best Sentences for 'That What She Said' Jokes

Lucky Larry — Wed, 04 May 2011 17:00:21 +0000

We still don't know who's going to be the new boss on 'The Office' but could Michael Scott's sense of humor be replaced by a computer program?

Chloé Kiddon and Yuriy Brun, two computer scientists at the University of Washington, have developed software that identifies the best sentences to attach the classic amendment "That's what she said."