Touchscreen Vending Machine Can Remember Your Face, Your Drink - rodriguezrecke1963

Even though we'ray practically sitting on Star Trek technology thanks to tablets, e-readers, and smartphones, new parts of everyday sprightliness still need to catch up. Oddly enough, vending machines Crataegus oxycantha not Be too far tail end the curve. Give it another few years, and they'll equal guessing what you want to drink down before you lavatory press a button.

Glimpsing the rising of sal soda machines, Technabob relays some interesting footage of this ambitious joint project between the Sanden Corporation, Intel, and Okaya Electronics. It currently doesn't have a name, but this concept design vending machine uses a monumental see-through touchscreen and some nifty tv camera go to in reality interact with random passerby. Most impressively, a camera affixed on the top of the machine can use face recognition software to determine your age and gender, recommending a drink in the swear out.

It's all powered by an Audience Impression Metric (or AIM), which is in turn liquid-fueled by an Intel Sandy Bridge Core central processor. If you happen to cost a repeat customer, Sanden also claims that the computer software will help vending machines remember your face, and suggest items based on what you previously bought. Is that a bit dreaded?

Of course, vending machines sell a good deal more just drinks, and you might observe the touchscreen displaying advertising for an iPhone, tablet, operating room whatsoever number of small electronic devices:

"In this exhibit, we're suggesting that hawking machines could glucinium wont to purchase luxury items, such equally cosmetics and wine-colored. The machine also has a in the public eye safety mode in times of emergency, which shows info such as evacuation routes." "I think this machine could be used in lots of shipway, depending on customers' imagination. It has a great umteen possibilities, so we'd equivalent to get ideas from everyone, quite than just using it as a regular hawking machine."

How far canonic engineering science has come over the geezerhood. Vending machines that guess what you want just by scanning your face? That's more 2099 than 2011.

[DigInfo via Technabob]

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