Toshiba demos facial recognition system for your car

Japanese corporation Toshiba has recently demoed a facial recognition system for your car that asses your facial expressions from 8 cameras around the car, each with a different view. The system can detect tired drivers from blinking rates, and whether or not someone wants to change the radio station by assessing how many times and how they look at the radio station controller.

This technology cannot be used with sunglasses, and people with long hair might have some problems with it because the hair could get in the way of the technology. Toshiba has not released plans to commercialize this technology yet.

Sharp Creates 5 Colour Pixel HD LCD

Sharp has developed an HD LCD that uses the three regular RGB pixels as well as cyan and yellow subpixels. This, Sharp claims, will help the TV more accurately show a fuller range of colours available to the human eye; over 99% of them says Sharp. This new screen will use less backlighting as the standard 3 colour pixel LCDs do since it can show colours more accurately and doesn't need help from the screen light, and yes I know that sentence was stupidly phrased.

The prototype will go on display next week at the Society Information Display conference in San Antonio, Texas and is currently not available to the public.