Artist Writes Detailed Portraits of Dogs

Florida-based artist Stephen Kline has created a new artistic technique that allows him to draw detailed portraits of dogs, using only text. For example he can draw the portrait of a poodle just by writing the word ‘poodle’ a few hundred times. You’d think writing the same word so many times would eventually get boring even for the most patient artist, but Stephen has so far created hundreds of these brilliant litographs of every dog breed you can think of.

Stephen Kline introduced his Lines of Language technique in 1999, and since then he’s gained thousands of art-collecting fans from 20 different countries and every state in the US. His litographs have so far generated tens of thousands of dollars for dog rescue centers around the world. LINK, Via: Youtube

Robot Mouth Simulates the Human Voice

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Engineers at Kagawa University in Japan are developing a talking robotic version of the human mouth:

To enable the robot’s speaking abilities, engineers at Japan’s Kagawa University used an air pump, artificial vocal chords, a resonance tube, a nasal cavity, and a microphone attached to a sound analyzer as substitutes for human vocal organs. The robot not only talks, but it uses a learning algorithm to mimic the sounds of human speech. By inputting the voices of both hearing-impaired and non-hearing-impaired people into the microphone, researchers were able to plot the differences in sound on a map. During speech training, the robot “listens” to the subjects talk while comparing their pronunciation to that of subjects who are not hearing-impaired. The robot then generates a personalized visualization that allows subjects to adjust their pronunciation according to the target points on the speech map.

This video has already been used to create mashups currently circulating YouTube. In the links, you’ll find one that presents the robot mouth as Eduard Khil, the Trolololo guy.

Link | Robot Mouth as Trolololo Guy, Via: Neatorama

List of 886 Palindromes

Palindromes are words, phrases or sentences that read the same backward as forward. For instance, "racecar," or "Derek, I like red." Now That's Nifty Lists 886 such words and phrases. Pretty neat!

Do geese see God?
Feeble Tom's motel beef.
I madam, I made radio! So I dared. Am I mad? Am I?

Link, Via: Neatorama

Do You Have Too Much Time On Your Hands?

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