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UCSD Biometric Vending Machine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the tracking-your-soda-habits dept.

dice writes to tell us that grad students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are creating the first biometric vending machine. The current machine comes equipped with a barcode scanner, a fingerprint reader, and a web cam for facial recognition. One student dubbed it the "most over-designed soda machine in the world." The project, code-named "SodaVision," is the brainchild of associate professor Stefan Savage, but it was the students who really made it come to life. And yes, it runs Linux.

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  1. imagine... by beens · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    a beowulf cluster of these.

  2. Re:A better feature for this device by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    mod funny!

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  3. Sledge hammer? by irishkev · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm starting to really enjoy stories that sum up the situation humanity is facing in very concise ways. Stories that are so jam packed with insanity and evil that one doesn't even know where to begin the analysis. The point, of course, is that analysis is no longer necessary to see where we are headed. The thing is apparent, prima facie.

    I wonder how that thing would stand up to a sledge hammer?