November 20, 2004

'Bionic dolphin’

NEW ZEALAND inventor Rob Innes pilots his so-called “bionic dolphin” vessel in Auckland Harbour on November 9. Innes developed and built it, along with his American counterpart Dan Piazza and will demonstrate it’s abilities at the upcoming ‘Big Boy’s Toys’ show starting on November 13. — Reuters/AFP



Robo kitty

The “Hello Kitty Robo” manufactured by Japan’s robotic venture Business Design Laboratory at the venture expo in Osaka. It can recognize human voices and faces and speak thousands of phrases. — AFP




Biometric security

Japan’s electronics giant Hitachi demonstrates a prototype of its new biometric security device (front) for the identification and authentification to read venous patterns of the user’s finger instead of a password — AFP

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