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Technology

Cutting Edge

27 March 2004

LOOKALIKES ON YOUR CELLPHONE

Are you an Uma Thurman lookalike, or maybe a spitting image of Ernest Borgnine? Twin Factor, a new service being developed by Softhouse Nordic, based in Malmo, Sweden, will be able to reveal which famous face best matches your own. You will begin by taking a photo of yourself with a camera phone and sending it via the phone’s multimedia message service (MMS) to Twin Factor.

The company said at the CeBIT consumer electronics fair in Hannover, Germany, last week that it will then use facial-recognition software to compare your face with thousands of movie stars,…

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