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Cigarette Machine to Teens: "Get Outta Here Ya Damn Kids!"
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 11:00 AM on November 6, 2007
Listen up, Japanese teens: vending machine maker Fujitaka Co. is on to your sneaky cigarette-buying ways, and has created a machine that uses a camera and face recognition software to try and stop you. The machine takes your picture when you press the "Adult Recognition" button, and analyzes your face for wrinkles and sagging. If it thinks you aren't saggy enough, you must insert your licence for age verification. In a test of 500 people, the machine spotted adults with 90% accuracy. Looks like the big kid with the crustache sitting at the back of your math class is about to be your new best friend; at least until you smoke enough to get wrinkled and buy cigarettes on your own. [Textually via The Raw Feed]
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Amiash
Posted 10:39 PM 5/11/07
man, this is the funniest invention for this day! better beg for it in 7/11. dont want to be humiliated by a machine that you cant punch in the f'ing face. hahah *crazy idea*
Amiash
Soundman1402
Posted 7:32 PM 5/11/07
@CCM333: Muahahaha, start paying attention in English class. ;-)
Soundman1402
CCM333
Posted 7:10 PM 5/11/07
umm... ppl like the bak of ur math class (aka me) will now rule the world!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHA
CCM333
Y2KGTP
Posted 7:00 PM 5/11/07
Why not just require the license for every purchase?
Y2KGTP
vagrant
Posted 6:58 PM 5/11/07
Near where I stay in Adachi-ku, there's a vending machine on the street that dispenses cold beer & sake.
vagrant
Thunder_Child
Posted 6:55 PM 5/11/07
"If it thinks you aren't saggy enough, you must insert your license for age verification." and the reason it doesn't do this the first time around???
Thunder_Child
tdj114
Posted 6:29 PM 5/11/07
Brilliant!! This could actually be the first electronic device that offends you and complements you at the same time.
tdj114
utube2007
Posted 6:24 PM 5/11/07
well too bad for me im 19 and everybody tells me i look 14 or 15
utube2007
coach
Posted 10:31 AM 6/11/07
Buying a couple o' smokes will get really annoying. Go think up something useful, crazy Fujitaka Japanese!
coach
robo
Posted 9:44 AM 6/11/07
Uhm, couldn't you just hold up a photo of an old person?
robo
evilsnowman
Posted 11:21 AM 6/11/07
Just wear a christopher walkin mask... :)
evilsnowman
tin
Posted 4:04 PM 6/11/07
@utube2007: Just insert your license. I have the same thing going on though, good old lack of facial maturity.
@vagrant: OWNAGE
tin