Can anyone lend me £300?!

Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:50 am by gromit

???!!!

!!!???

Hehe, ok, let me explain...this is something I've just added to my blog, but it crossed my mind that you guys might appreciate it...

If anybody has a spare £300 and wants to buy me a pressie - this is it. Its a Panasonic Iris Recognition Camera...built around IrisCode technology (the best recognition technology in the world today), Panasonic have produced a superbly accurate budget camera that can limit secure access to your computer.

Yes yes I know, whats the point of having one of these for a home computer right? Well, firstly its a gadget - and I love gadgets. Secondly I could pretend that my house is a technodream from a hollywood action movie (come on, you've got to admit it would be cool!). And finally, I do actually eventually want to make my house into one enormous wireless hub, running my living room/kitchen/dining room/bedroom's entertainment system all from my computer - the advantages of which are enormous - so this would enable me to make the whole shabang incredibly secure.

But lets get down to the truth...I want one...I want one because...I want one. Simple as that

Wed Aug 11, 2004 5:57 am by Indy11

*rubs thumb and index finger together*

Hear that? It's the sound of the worlds tiniest violin playing your lament.

Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:00 am by Esquilax

*Begins tapping fingers together*

Hear that? It's the sound of the world's smallest drumkit playing your lament

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As for the camera; bah, too expensive. Get one of those USB keys that has a fingerprint scanner. Now THAT is classy! It's good for the paranoid in all of us

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Edited by - esquilax on 8/11/2004 7:03:33 AM

Wed Aug 11, 2004 6:06 am by kimk

its only £299.00... besides, it might go faulty and zap your eyes out.

Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:28 am by Indy11

*winces at the imagery*

Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:31 am by RILMS

Dude, I wanted one of those. But I desided to just get a regulay webcam that'll fit easily into my backpack. Besides, I'm not that paranoid that I need an iris scanner for my comps. *looks around* not yet atleast...

Life: No one gets out alive.

Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:33 am by gromit

lol. where can I could get these tiny instruments??!! I could make a fortune on the jazz scene in canterbury

Seriously though, £299 isn't expensive for a bit of kit like that!?!! I know how hard these recognition systems can be to get right - for one of my dissitations I wrote a voice recognition system using C++ and then created the circuitry to go with it. After 2 years hard graft it only had a 65% recognition rate - but I was quite please with that as Nokia at that time hadn't even mustered up a measly 20%.

I just think that Iris Recognition is the product of Sci-Fi and Espionage books - I never thought I'd see it on sale this early in the new millenium for under £300.

Am I alone in thinking its cool?

Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:37 am by Indy11

It is cool BUT, if you have ever had your eyes examined and had the glaucoma
test that uses the puff of air to measure your eye pressure while this annoying beam of light is being shot right into your pupil, you have to wonder whether it is such a "bearable" thing to have to do each time you want to use your comp.
Not the puff of air thing but the beam of light thing. PLUS your eyeball is completely naked to whatever is in the eyepiece at that point.

Note. I am EXTREMELY squeamish about anything to do with my eyes. I had a gf who wore contact lenses and watching her put them or take them out ..... yeeesh. Made my skin crawl.

Edited by - Indy11 on 8/11/2004 8:37:56 AM

Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:40 am by freighter fighter

here that high pitched irritation? its mrs grom

...explaining that the money could probably be spent better elsewhere.

Edited by - freighter fighter on 8/11/2004 8:41:13 AM

Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:38 am by King Death

Very true.

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Sticks and stones may break my bones.......... please... don't throw sticks and stones
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Wed Aug 11, 2004 8:45 am by H.Q. Victor

If I get a wife, the computer spending WILL take a nose dive. But thats ok.

Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:00 am by Indy11

Not all of us buy computers by the bucket load like you seem to do Fd.

Besides, if you slowed down on your hardward acquisitions, you MIGHT be able
to afford broadband insted.

Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:07 am by H.Q. Victor

I have had 5 computers in 6 years. Low end types at that. Sold 2 and gave away 1. The cards have always been low end as well. But remember, I don't travel, drink, go on vacations or basicly have a life, therfore, I am intitled to the vice of computers, I'll have you know.

Broadband is out of the question until Juno comes up with thier own again. they are strickly dial-up and at $14.95 a month unlimited time, Broadband can't beat it.

Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:22 am by gromit

@ff do you think I'm dumb enough to even tell mrs gromit about this gadget??!

lol. thats rhetorical...answer at your peril

Wed Aug 11, 2004 9:25 am by freighter fighter

hmm...um...*wonders if he should answer*

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