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Optical Mice Used To Detect Counterfeit Coins

Posted by timothy on from the is-there-anything-optical-mice-can't-do? dept.

JimXugle writes "El Mundo reports that Spanish researchers at The University of Lleida have used a modified optical mouse to detect counterfeit €2 coins (Original article, in Spanish) with a success rate comparable to that of an expert trained to do so. Details are to be published freely in the journal Sensors."

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  1. Re:How does it compare to a vending machine? by von_rick · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The corollary to this mouse-hack is that you can use your mouse as a scanner and coupled with an OCR program, use it for getting scribbled notes uploaded to your computer.

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    Face your daemons!

  2. The conclusion from this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you compare a counterfeit-coin-detecting expert with a purpose-built handheld device, the answer is pretty obvious.

    Until the day the people who print counterfeit coins buy a purpose-built handheld device, of course, and there's no expert around to reprogram the device because he jumped off a bridge after losing his job.

  3. Re:How does it compare to a vending machine? by Valdez · · Score: 3, Interesting

    For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares?"

    "intensive purposes" is retarded

    Perhaps the poster was going for "for all intents and purposes"?

    If so, ouch.

  4. Re:Other coin facts. by nuckfuts · · Score: 2, Interesting

    We have a coin of our own that is not always accepted, whereas we readily accept US (foreign) coins.

    You don't see the irony in that?