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Mar 21 2007
A new “smart” beer vending machine appeared in Prague recently.
Future Art, the innovation’s developer guarantees that young people under 18
will not be able to use it. One of the invention’s joint authors
commented that the machine will control the buyer’s age by checking his passport
data. When according to these data the buyer is younger than 18, he won’t get
the beer can. Luckily, money will be returned then. One omission is that the
person will still be able to use the other person’s “identity card” as the
machine can’t check the passport photograph. Still, in case policemen notice
youngsters cheating this way, their parents will be charged rather a large fine
– 10 thousand crowns. A number of beer selling machines will appear in Prague by
April and will be installed on territories where it is forbidden to sell
alcoholic beverages to people under 18-years-of-age. David Polnar, from Future
Art, also noted that the system could be used in door systems, turnstiles,
gaming machines and Internet terminals. |
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