#1720: HiJean

If you share some piece of equipment with several colleagues or flatmates, there is sometimes a need to monitor hygiene.

Today’s invention is an internal camera which detects the sudden appearance of a mess within eg a microwave oven (by looking for any contrasting blots or blobs on the pristine white walls/floor) and then captures an image of the next person to open the door.

It would be quite amusing to use face recognition to issue a verbal warning “That’s the second time this week you’ve made a mess [facename = Jean]”

This could be applied to other shared facilities but many of them couldn’t legally be equipped with an imaging device.

2 Comments:

  1. You might be better to go with the last person who opened the door rather than the next, especially if there is a danger of food splatting onto the camera.

    • Good point Sam. I guess that means detecting whether a mess occurred immediately after that person and if it didn’t, overwriting their stored image.

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