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A Japanese company called Keihin Electric Express Railway Co. has introduced a “Smile Scan” system. It aims to evaluate the smiles and grins of its staff.

The device analyzes the facial characteristics of a person including: eye movements, lip curves and wrinkles. It also rates the smile on a scale between 0 and 100 percent.

“We aim to improve our services to make our customers smile,” says a company official.

Now I just started laughing when I first read this. Such a bizarre idea. I wonder if it can detect fakes smiles

via Mainichi Daily News

Gina Trapani ask her followers on Twitter whether they are going to upgrade to the new iPhone 3GS or not.You can see the compilation of answers here.

“So, are you getting an iPhone 3GS? Why or why not? (Will compile and report back best responses.)”

One of the answers says (by @megnut):

“Yes, iPhone = my computer, and $399 is worth it. Haven’t bought new laptop since late 06 and don’t plan to for long time.”

I think this raises a very interesting point. Has the iPhone become powerful enough to replace your laptop? So the tiny keyboard and smaller screen are drawbacks but it’s pretty amazing that you can do simple photo editing and create documents & spreadsheets, yea?

Rene from The iPhone Blog said:

A couple of friends of mine who work in IT administration have been telling me the same thing since the iPhone 3G launched. One of them recently left his laptop behind and took only an iPhone with him on a motorcycle trip and conference, and was still able to keep on top of his servers.

While the sheer volume of writing and editing demanded by TiPb still keeps me chained to a laptop, I’ll also admit to leaving the MacBook behind and running out with only my iPhone whenever I can — and yes, I’ve been likewise amazed at not only how much I can now accomplish with a mobile computing device, but how easily I can accomplish it.

John Gruber of Daring Fireball also expressed his views:

This, to me, gets to the heart of the revolution at hand. A decade ago, my first PowerBook was a secondary machine to the desktop anchored at my desk. Now, my main machine is my MacBook Pro, but it feels a bit like an anchor now. My mobile secondary computer is my iPhone.

My Thoughts

I think the iPhone will play a bigger role in people’s mobile computing. But will or can it replace your laptop? I think it really depends on your needs. For people with light usage (checking email, casual web browsing), I think the iPhone could definitely be an alternative. For me, it will. I don’t do a lot of heavy mobile computing and therefore carrying a laptop would be illogical.

What are your thoughts?

Below is a Friendfeed conversion about this subject:

I downloaded Firefox 3.5 the day it came out. Won’t go into a lengthy review but there are some of my first thoughts about it:

• A little snappier and faster
• A few minor design/UI changes
• And finally private browsing is here

Here are the notable changes via the release notes.

Available in more than 70 languages.

Support for the HTML5 <video> and <audio> elements including native support for Ogg Theora encoded video and Vorbis encoded audio.

Improved tools for controlling your private data, including a Private Browsing Mode.

Better web application performance using the new TraceMonkey JavaScript engine.

The ability to share your location with websites using Location Aware Browsing.

Support for native JSON, and web worker threads.

Improvements to the Gecko layout engine, including speculative parsing for faster content rendering.

Support for new web technologies such as: downloadable fonts, CSS media queries, new transformations and properties, JavaScript query selectors, HTML5 local storage and offline application storage, <canvas> text, ICC profiles, and SVG transforms.

If you bothered to read all the *notable* features, I’ll give you a thumbs up (Y). Anyway, make sure you do get Firefox 3.5. It’s always a good idea to get the latest version of any software.

How stupid can you get? Hmm…I wonder how the photo turned out.

via amanisfly

Cultural differences between the US and the UK.

via Kevin Fox

Love your iPhone? Check these out! You can actually order the doormat at meninos.

via gizmodo

via gizmodo

This crazy guy got angry at his Macbook Air because his Air got the broken hinge problem (common for Airs). This defect made him angry enough to stab his Macbook Air with a kitchen knife…and snap it into two.

via MacWorld

People like to go a little fancy with their wifi network names. Some examples are…

via oddee (There are a few more pics on the original post so please visit it)