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My college uses these to control entrance to the dining halls. The technology has been around for years and it works consistently and effectively. They want you
by elil17 6y ago
My college uses these to control entrance to the dining halls. The technology has been around for years and it works consistently and effectively. They want you to think this is something highly innovative but I’m pretty sure they’re just licensing already existing palm scanners.
- joezydeco 6y agoWere those dining hall scanners using a palm-on-glass technology, or mid-air like what Amazon is showing?
- elil17 6y agoMid-air, exactly like Amazon's
- notyourwork 6y agoI would love to see a picture of one.
- elil17 6y agohttps://www.idemia.com/innovation/morphowave https://www.idemia.com/innovation/morphowave Their product uses visual light to take the 3D scan (hence the green glow) but their patent filings cover a lot of related scanning techniques.
- catsdanxe 6y agoMy college used mid air finger print scanners. It scanned all 4 finger prints and would let you pass even if you had a bandaid over one.
- MisterPea 6y agoA big thing though is how cheap they can make this. The Idemia one seems a lot more expensive. Driving down costs on existing technology is innovation. (Although who knows how much this actually costs to amazon)
- autokad 6y agothat's a cynical way of thinking. applying something in a new area is innovative. For example, the iphone was a mobile phone + mp3 player + ... none of that stuff was new, but yet the iphone was incredibly innovative. this helps streamline a process. one of the annoyances at go stores was waiting for someone to pull out their phone, open the app, and scan. I was like if you dont have your phone out already, step aside until you do, but at least this solves part of that issue. also the dinning hall situation was probably a simpler environment with not as many negative consequences if a person got accepted into the hall.