Artwork: Speak & Spell—An iconic, electronic toy from Texas Instruments that introduced a whole generation of children to speech synthesis in the late 1970s. It was built around the TI TMC0281 chip. Here's a whistle-stop tour through the history of speech synthesis: 1769: Austro-Hungarian...
And in fact, NASA uses this to try and figure out who will be good astronauts. They pay attention to how astronaut applicants laugh when they’re in interviews, because they found that the people who laugh genuinely, who match the laughter of the interviewer, those pe...
If you’ve gone through all of these things and still aren’t able to find the elusive book you’re looking for, then you may have to accept that it’s not going to happen or even that you may not be remembering it correctly. I remember one story about a person looking for a parti...