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4 Engineering Students have Developed a Device that Converts Sign Language into Voice and Text - The Better India

4 Engineering Students have Developed a Device that Converts Sign Language into Voice and Text - The Better India

11574km:

ahappymuslimah:

shaymeem:

stuffmomnevertoldyou:

(S)heroes!

The students' Gesture Vocaliser understands simple sign language gestures and will say them out loud.

This is amazing for medical reasons isn't it ahappymuslimah

THAT'S AMAZAING

The students' names are Minu Varghese, S. Deepthi, Delna Domini, and Nimya Varghese.

YOOOOOOO!

This just in: Beloved is amazing.

I had a little baby breakdown about the impossibility of trying to break through the glass box that noob authors like me are stuck in. It involved lots of handflaps and raspberries if you’re interested.

Anyway, apparently I need a site so Google can find me. I mean, it can already find my shit on Smashwords and other fine e-Retailers… But this site will be completely different because… uh…

Actually I don’

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T_T ASDFGHJKL ;_;

Running around in circles…

Trying to get The Amity Incident capital-n Noticed by some nice famous people.

Except…

  1. In order to gift something from Smashwords, I have to know the recipients’ email
  2. Celebs don’t give out their emails to random hacks on the internet because reasons
  3. Very good reasons
  4. Like everyone and their kid brothers’ dog spamming them with bullshit
  5. There’s no such thing as a private tweet so I can’t go that route
  6. About the only
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Challenge #00879-B148: Tokens of Adulthood

multitool,

They threw him a Going Away Party. Just like they threw him an
Adoption Day party on the anniversary of his arrival on Hippo Mining
Station. And, like all the things the mining crew did for him, it
involved available materials.

So far, he’d been given a pair of
The Drongo’s old work-boots - refurbished and ‘gussied up’ with a layer
of gleaming black ductape. This parcel contained fabric scraps from
Dode’s stash. Every colour of the rainbow,

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Fan Art Friday

carissaxanne:

You guys have been making too much amazing art. Calm down. You’re making me want to just have a day where we feature all of you!

…but seriously, don’t stop.

Make art about robots, and about the humans beneath the metal. Draw sound guys with dreads or scales, mixing music or breathing fire. Make Walter Workers with or without white-stained skin and blue-streaked hair. Feature baby giraffes and pixelated smiley faces and sonic interface AI’s. Give us your

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brinconvenient:micdotcom: These revolutionary digital ear plugs just raised $250,000 on Kickstarter in 3 days A company called Doppler Labs...

brinconvenient:

micdotcom:

These revolutionary digital ear plugs just raised $250,000 on Kickstarter in 3 days 

A company called Doppler Labs just finished the prototype for an incredible new technology that has the potential to change live concerts and even the way we hear the world. It’s called Here Active Listening, and it’s a wireless earbud that, instead of playing music, lets you control the sound of the world around you.

With the understanding that I don’t have sensory

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Florida cop suspended with pay after sexually assaulting lesbian teenager

Florida cop suspended with pay after sexually assaulting lesbian teenager

sicksadfemme:

peachdyke:

gaywrites:

In Hialeah, Florida, a 17-year-old lesbian has filed a police report after a cop allegedly detained her, sexually harassed her and alluded to raping her.

The 17-year-old and her girlfriend, who have both asked not to be identified, were pulled over for making a u-turn and detained for questioning. Sgt. Jesus Menocal, Jr. told the teenager to get in the back of his police car to go to the

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Challenge #00878-B147: Educational Aside

Since this year was a bust, eurovision prompt 2: Lasha Tumbai

[AN: I looked her up on Youtube… wow]

“So…
if that’s ‘Eurovision Lite’…” Rael couldn’t help himself. Perhaps curiosity was yet another Alpha-draft flaw. “What is -ah- ‘Eurovision
Heavy’ like?”

“Nearest words I can get is - the video answer tae crack.” Shayde queued up another video segment and fetched more popcorn.

“I’m not going to see anything… awful… am I?”

“Na, na,

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First Aid for Dummies

princess-911:

1. If it looks broken, it probably is.

2. If it doesn’t look broken, it probably still is.

3. If it’s straight, don’t bend it.

4. If it’s bent, don’t straighten it.

5. If it’s protruding, don’t stick it back in.

6. If it’s impaled, don’t pull it back out.

7. If it’s bleeding, cover it.

8. If it bleeds through your covering, cover it again - without peeking back underneath.

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"The Basics"

thecosmosknowsitself:

radiantbutterfly:

sortinghatchats:

The basic structure of the @sortinghatchats system is that you aren’t just sorted into one House, but into two tiers of Houses: Primary and Secondary. Your Primary House defines WHY you do things. Your Secondary defines HOW. To build this system, we’ve drawn on the Sorting Hat’s songs, general HP canon, extracanonical data (ex. interviews with JKR)… and then extrapolated.

People are complex– for joy or for utility, due to social pressure or careless recreation, people

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