Today it was fine and hot unlike a rainy season.
I had a chance to visit TEPIA in Tokyo. TEPIA means technology utopia. It was established in 1989 but I did not know about it until recently. It is a kind of museum which exhibits the Japanese cutting-edge technologies. There are five themes at the Advance Technology Exhibition Hall at the first floor: 1. Life and Communication 2. Health and Medical Care 3. City and Mobility 4. Environment and Energy/Resource 5. Small World and High Functional Material. On the second floor there is a video library. There are tours for about an hour if you like.
The best thing is the admission. It is free of charge.
I saw many interesting technologies there. One of them was a segment sensor which analyzes the face appeared on the monitor and estimates the sex and age. Their data is only made for Japanese people, so if a foreigner stands in front of the camera, the data is not always correct. The other was an estimation machine of the degree of smile. If you smile in front of the camera, it measures the degree of your smile from 0% to 100%. This technology is applied for the digital camera to take the most photogenic picture.
It was so interesting that I recommend you to visit there someday.
Please check the following website.
http://www.tepia.jp/english/index.html
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