Next time you lie about your age, remind yourself to check for suspicious carpet below your feet. Researchers over at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan has invented an intelligent carpet that is able to detect your weight, age and gender by simply having you stroll across it.
“The carpet’s intelligence is derived from a layer of silicone rubber with built-in electrodes that measure the changes in electrical resistance and current flow caused by someone walking across it.”
According to lab test results, the carpet is very accurate as well. Determining age between 20 and 60 yields almost perfect results, whereas determining gender is a neat 75 percent accuracy. Weight is no big deal, of course.
I would imagine the technology is most useful for demographic research in places such as cinemas and shopping malls.
July 27th, 2006 at 12:02 pm
or to be used in clubs for catching underage people with fake id
July 27th, 2006 at 2:27 pm
Yes that too, zixyon!