Kinect has no qualms about guessing a woman’s age

Were you aware that Microsoft’s Kinect can measure your bodily proportions in 3D and hence ontogenetically estimate your age? Well grandma, it could actually. Apart from being incredibly impolite, a contemporary patent application from Redmond also highlights a more suitable function: to stop kids from watching or playing age-restricted media. The proposed system could even shut down inappropriate material automatically when an offending minor steps within the room after which resume it after they leave. Nonetheless, we give it five minutes before some scheming rugrat with a distorting lens tweets a workaround.

Source

This post is tagged: five minutes, inappropriate material, patent application, proportions, proposed system, workaround