Technology Report - Building Machines With Human-Like Senses

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VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in English. Every year, IBM chooses five new technologies that company believes will change the world within the next years. The list is called "5 in 5." IBM it considers its own research and the new directions society and business when identifying the technologies. This year, list describes devices that will extend our five senses. looking for clothes online and touching your computer or to feel the cloth. IBM's vice president of innovation, Meyerson, says this technology could be available in the five years. Touch is just one of the senses technology will help to extend. IBM says smart machines soon be able to listen to the environment and us information about the sounds they hear. For example, Meyerson says an advanced speech recognition system will tell parents why their baby is crying. Smart machines will help identify medical conditions. If you sneeze on your or cell phone, the device will study the molecules came out of your mouth. It will then tell whether you need to see a doctor. Another prediction that computers will be better able to not just at images but understand what they show and act that information. Bernie Meyerson says IBM scientists are also a computer system that can examine and combine molecules create the most popular flavors and smells. Mark Maloof a computer scientist at Georgetown University. He says it be exciting to see what young people will do the mobile technology, networking and computing power of tomorrow. VOA Learning English, I'm Carolyn Presutti. (Adapted from a program broadcast 18Feb2013)

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