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January 06, 2014

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The coolest bus that runs on water

The new Hafencity Riverbus in Hamburg, reveals it’s actually a bit of both. The amphibious capability makes it ideally suited to the port city on the Elbe. Most of Hamburg’s tourist attractions are located either on, or adjacent to the waterfront. While driving on land it’s like any other bus. After the owner saw something similar in Singapore 18 years ago, he had to do serious pioneering work and a lot of paperwork to finally get the amphibious bus to Germany. The development took a total of four years, since in Germany amphibious cars are not part of the traffic law. Underneath the actual passenger cabin sits a MAN truck chassis, the body and the waterproof hull come from Hungary. It’ll drive just as every other bus on the road, but once hitting the water the bus will be equipped with two water jets in the aft of the truck. This ensures excellent maneuverability in Germany’s most busy port. Maintenance work on the unusual vehicle ...

The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology: Pranav Mistry on TED.com

App that Will Let You Donate Your Voice!

VocaliD aims to give a voice to those who cannot speak by customising the voice of people who can.Very soon, speech-impaired patients will not be stuck with just the generic computerised voices such as physicist Stephen Hawking in order to be heard by others. A research team, that includes an Indian-origin scientist at the periphery is currently working on an app that may allow people to donate their voice to those who have severe speech impediments owing to stroke, Parkinson’s or cerebral palsy etc. The programme: VocaliD aims to give a voice to those who cannot speak by customising the voice of people who can into synthetic speech. “For these individuals, this is the only way that they interact with people around them,” Rupal Patel, a speech scientist at Northeastern University in Boston and VocaliD’s co—director was quoted as saying, referring to generic computerised voices currently available. However, all this is going to change soon. Under VocaliD, the researc...

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