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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Japanese guides to help puzzled cell phone users

    TOKYO
    Tue Jan 22, 2008 9:00am EST
    A Japanese woman plays a video game on a phone in a file photo. Japan plans government-backed exams for phone guides who will help users navigate their increasingly complicated mobiles. REUTERS/Kiyoshi Ota

    TOKYO (Reuters) - Baffled by your cell phone?

    Technology  |  Lifestyle

    Japan is planning government-backed exams for phone guides who will help users navigate their increasingly complicated mobile phones.

    Chatting on the phone on a bus or a train is frowned on in Japan, and many people use their high-tech phones more for texting, blogging or the browsing Web.

    "The scheme is aimed at helping users understand not only complicated functions of mobile phones but also complicated pricing formulas," said an official at the telecoms ministry.

    Besides giving tips on how to use their phones, the experts, employed in mobile phone shops, will to help parents learn how to control the Web browsing of their tech-savvy children, the official said.

    (Reporting by Teruaki Ueno)
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