Face-Recognizing Vending Machine Offers Grooming Tips
Face-Recognizing Vending Machine Offers Grooming Tips
Posted 01/18/2011 at 6:12am
| by Paul Lilly
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Don't be offended if your office vending machine suddenly starts trying to sell you hair loss treatment. It's not poking fun at your receding hairline, it's merely using its facial recognition technology to determine what products you might be interested in.
This is the future, at least as conceived by Taipei-based Innovative Digitech-Enabled Applications and Services Institute. According to Yahoo News, this company built a vending machine equipped with a camera and technology designed to analyze shoppers and then predict what products they might be interested in.
"Our facial-recognition technology is more active that what has been developed in the United States and Japan, because it can actually offer shopping advice," said Tsai Chi-hung, a researcher at the institute.
Beauty products, health drinks, and other products are all fair game.
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mario_ramalho
January 18, 2011 at 2:36pm
That looks like Gibbs from NCIS. If so, upon offering a grooming tip, the machine will be served with a slap in the back of the circuitboard...
majorsuave
January 18, 2011 at 8:15am
What if you stand in front of the vending machine with a hockey mask and a bloody machete?
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