clipped from: www.independent.ie   

Lost the keys ? Just ask your magic glasses


A team of Japanese scientists claim to solved one of mankind's greatest mysteries -- where did I leave my car keys?


And the secretive artificial intelligence project codenamed Smart Goggle does not stop at elusive keys. With Yasuo Kuniyoshi's invention balanced on your nose, nothing -- be it the remote control or mobile phone -- should ever go missing again.


Simply tell the glasses what you are looking for and it will play into your eye a video of the last few seconds you saw that item.


Built on to the glasses is a tiny camera which makes a constant record of everything the wearer sees: the tiny display inside the glasses identifies what is being scanned and a small readout instantly announces what the computer thinks the object probably is. For some things that look different from a range of angles, however, the glasses offer only a "best guess" and they are better at identifying a guitar than a coathanger or battery.