I really hope they don't use this to autopilot cars. That seems completely reckless. If a terrorist happened to get an LED flashlight that disrupted the transmission of whatever light signals were going to the autopiloted cars, there would be chaos. It would be so easy interrupt these signals.
Thinking more about it, any signal "controlling" an autopiloted car would be insecure and be an easy exploit that any malicious-minded people could take advantage of. But that's a discussion that's besides the point.
This is absurd.
http://www.speedtest.net/
I barely get 10mbps download and less than 2mbps upload speed and I'm happy with it. How are connections in South Korea 100 times faster than mine? Does anyone know if there is any special technology behind it?
This reminds me a lot of some scene in minority report. Tom Cruise ended up having to inject his face with some chemical that completely changed his facial features. If this was the norm, people would have to resort to things like that to go unnoticed or hide.
"Google’s Eric Schmidt last week stated that facial recognition was the only technology the company has ever held back from the public. 'We built that technology and withheld it [because] people could use in a very bad way,' he said at the D9 conference"
seems like google just doesn't want to have too much negative backlash