"The teddy bear sitting in the corner of the child's room might look normal, until his head starts following the kid around using a face recognition program, perhaps also allowing a parent talk to the child through a special phone, or monitor the child via a camera and wireless Internet connection," reports AP.
"The 'Teddy' project was one of about 150 projects on display at Microsoft's TechFest, a two-day event that gives Microsoft's worldwide team of researchers the chance to show product developers their sometimes far-flung creations, and perhaps find a fit for the projects in a future, marketable product."
Comment: Last year, I wrote an Online cover story on "life caching" called How to save your life. One of the things I mentioned in passing was that "in 1992, usability guru Don Norman wrote about everyone having a personal Teddy: you would get it when you were two or three years old, and it would store all the experiences you ever had." Rather than being a simple spy, this is a much more complicated idea, which you can read about here.
