The Wall That Knows If You're a Criminal 119
Barence writes "A German company called Dermalog is showing off a wall-sized transparent display that can tell a person's age, mood and criminal intent simply by scanning their face. The system displays data about the user next to their face, and is a demonstration of a fraud-prevention system that matches criminal intent to certain characteristics. PC Pro's tester wasn't overly impressed. 'If the face was a good enough indicator of mood then it should have tagged me as "freaked out on business technological ennui," not simply "happy", and no police force would accept a description of someone as "aged between 45 and 75 — that's the gap between Daniel Craig and Jack Nicholson.'"
Face scan? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doesn't work? Doesn't matter. (Score:5, Funny)
How else are they going to generate the annual false positives they need to point to to justify their own existence, then, smart guy?
Re:Face scan? (Score:5, Funny)
Phrenology!
Nope, not at all!
Phrenology on a computer! Which is obviously completely different and patent-worthy!
Re:Reliability (Score:5, Funny)
So Daniel Craig walks up to this scanner and is greeted by a female voice that goes, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. We have detected that you are about to commit a felony. We strongly urge you to reconsider."
Or, "Good morning, Mr. Nicholson. Please enjoy this taser shock before our agents perform a body cavity search".
Re:Doesn't work? Doesn't matter. (Score:4, Funny)
Hard to sell.
Imagine a conference room with a salesman, a CEO and a bunch of politicians. Who do you propose they use to check whether the machine is actually capable of giving a negative?
Re:Doesn't work? Doesn't matter. (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine a conference room with a salesman, a CEO and a bunch of politicians. Who do you propose they use to check whether the machine is actually capable of giving a negative?
The schmuck they had to pull into the room to help them find the "on" button.