Facial Recognition Vending Machine Debuts

Peter Hanami writes "Yesterday in Japan, a facial recognition vending machine went on sale that can tell the age of the buyer based on a range of features including number of wrinkles, bone structure and how the skin sits on the face. It was developed as a way to stop minors from buying cigarettes from vending machines. In Japan, cigarette vending machines are a common feature on the street and presently few safeguards exist to stop younger users from purchasing them. This new machine is seen as a positive step to reduce under age smoking. If the machine doesnt deem the buyer to be of suitable age, 20 years old, the buyer must provide further identification such as a drivers licence."

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wtf?

[virgil_disgr4ce]

Who the hell wrote this broke-ass summary? Or a better question is, who the hell proofread and approved it?! Yes, yes, I know, "you must be new here," har har. Seriously, this is garbage.

--ted

condom vending machines!!!

[myowntrueself]

Of course!

Fit these on condom vending machines in pubs and clubs. Not to ensure that guys buying condoms are legal age but because since, as everyone knows, its a womans responsibility to ensure that a guy uses protection, when an *underage* girl trys to buy a pack of condoms from the vending machine it *refuses* to sell them to her and, of course, she doesn't have sex thereby saving the unsuspecting guy the trauma of discovering that he had sex with an underage girl!

Brilliant!!!