Real-time Shrug Detector
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Witty real-time shrug detector
Apr 28 2006, Vikas Shekhawat

I hope the inventors would soon be able to detect countless shrugs when the users would first encounter this bizarre technology. The ‘real-time shrug detector’ shrugged out by some worn-out researchers at the University of Illinois is an attempt to trap...

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