Imagine this, you find yourself in town with friends without any planning and the question gets asked "whats on tonight, where shall we go". How about a mobile phone application that uses your GPS information in conjunction with event info posted on the web and suggests events or locations you might wish to go to based on the user selecting an activity type. For example, we decide we want to go and eat Chinese, then onto a bar to see a live band playing hard rock. The app scours...

Currently there are many guitar "modellers" available to recreate sounds via DSP of various well known amps - but they never sound or respond "just right". How about using Neural Networks to come up with accurate transfer functions to process straight guitar input signals to realistic sounding and responding amplifier output signals? You train the networks by playing the guitar through the actual amp you want to model, and use backpropogation of error to define the specific amp...