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kevindqc , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines

Often these are used for liveness detection, to make sure it’s a real person’s face and not a picture.

umbrella , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines
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they are used to be creepy

Mr_Wobble , in Turnip legs.

In the year 2024, with AI and Photoshop so prevalent, and without any supporting info even suggesting legitimacy, this isn’t even mildly interesting.

Tolookah ,

Looking it up, it turns out it’s an actual turnip, carved to look like this.

keeplaughingforever.com/…/turnips-grown-into-legs…

Mr_Wobble ,

I stand corrected! Thank you for looking up and finding that interesting context.

BleatingZombie ,

That’s what I was hoping! That’s genuinely impressive

kaklerbitmap ,
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Not trying to downplay how cool the piece is, but the artists website says it’s acrylic urethane with real Daikon leaves:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e8acad3d-dd3b-4663-9bed-1703fcba8a1a.jpeg

Tolookah ,

Well now I’m sad. Thanks for looking deeper than me!

kaklerbitmap ,
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It’s still a really cool piece of art! Their other works are really fascinating and well-executed too - I especially like the kiwi with the hairy butthole and the… uh… scrotumfruit?

mugthol , in Turnip legs.

This looks like AI, too many details in the toes, rest of the foot, legs and knees. It would be a wonder to find one such turnip, let alone a matching one

Funkytom467 ,
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It’s too good for AI, but photoshop, maybe AI in photoshop idk…

mugthol ,

Yeah, photoshop is also possible, but I think a human would have tried to make it at least believable (no nails on the toes for example)

wjrii ,

I wonder if this an evolution of the square watermelons known in Japan.

mugthol ,

I doubt you could make it have this level of details and I think that technique cannot be used for stuff that is grown in the soil

wjrii ,

You’re probably right, and this in particular seems to be a sculpture with a turnip plant glued on top, per @Tolookah

lolrightythen ,

That def makes the most sense aside from Photoshop or AI.

I don’t know much about growing produce, but I’d think making a mold for something that grows underground would be more difficult than something that grows on top of the soil.

*My bad- should have read previous comments closer. Good convo yall

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Shadow , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines
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The nexus machines in several airports have scanners like this and I can just walk up to it, look at it, and keep walking. No giving it my ID or anything like that.

AdrianTheFrog OP ,
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Yeah, it was like a boarding pass printing machine though, which seems like a weird use. You still had to get the pass scanned later.

CaptDust , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines

This is an ICM Self Check In Kiosk, which features a “passenger feedback camera” and offers “a single token end to end processing experience”.

Basically exactly what you think it is, an advanced biometric system for reading your face. I don’t think airports have it activated yet, but maybe one day you’ll be able to check in without scanning a boarding pass or passport for the low price of your privacy.

dustyData ,

Some like these are active at Bogotá’s airport, in Colombia. The kiosk screen asks you to look straight at the camera placing your feet on specific spots in front of the kiosk for alignment. Then it shows how it is comparing your face with the picture on the passport.

It is really creepy.

pikmeir ,

I’ve used one of those before at an airport and it worked exactly as you say. I think it was just for boarding though. I just walked forward and when I got to the front, they greeted me by name and I got on the plane. I don’t remember having to show my passport or boarding pass that time either (but it was last year so I may have forgotten).

CaptDust ,

Since it needs a source to compare against, I’m curious where they captured your face info

prayer ,

TSA uses driver’s license info

bitchkat ,

I used something like that with Global Entry at LAX.

huginn ,

You’re in an airport. You don’t have privacy.

OldManBOMBIN , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines

Probably just an advanced form of identity protection. There’s nothing to see here folks. Nooope, just good, old-fashioned, freedom with security. Yep. That’s all. Definitely not getting 3d scanned and stored digitally for some hedonistic billionaire’s personal bio-lifedoll library, which they totally don’t use to fake your death if you go against the agenda- that doesn’t exist. Hey, have you seen this? Pretty neat, right?

owatnext , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines
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There was a camera kinda like that on each seat back on my recent transpacific flight. Creepy to sit behind that for 17 hours.

baggins ,

Camera covering tape needs to become an essential EDC item.

9point6 ,

Which airline? I’m never flying with them

owatnext ,
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United Airlines.

9point6 ,

Thanks

AllNewTypeFace ,
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The United Airlines who, coincidentally, are planning to start showing personalised ads on seatback screens?

Retro_unlimited , in RealSense depth camera in ticket machines

Looks a lot like my 3d scanner / Like an Xbox Kinect. On a ticket machine That’s just creepy.

mojofrododojo ,

yep, structured images are projected, then left right cameras capture images, the device compares the differences in each image and can use that to build a rough 3d model of the face. I strongly suspect these are used to make sure people aren’t using printed images to spoof the verification - but never put it past the state to horde data and hoover up everything they can.

NickwithaC , in Just a random 3" screw in a freshly opened box of 1-5/8"
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Forbidden fusilli

steal_your_face , in Just a random 3" screw in a freshly opened box of 1-5/8"
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The guy she tells you not to worry about

Psych , in Just a random 3" screw in a freshly opened box of 1-5/8"

Damn blud got golden painted screws while us chumps are using plain old stainless ones .

weew ,

Stainless? Us REAL chumps are using rusty screws salvaged from the junkyard!

Psych ,

Missing r/ frugal jerk right now .

Cryophilia , in Just a random 3" screw in a freshly opened box of 1-5/8"

This is a perfect example of mildly interesting.

Damage , in Just a random 3" screw in a freshly opened box of 1-5/8"

1-5/8"

Just American things

FrostyTheDoo ,

^ non-americans’ favorite activity

Damage ,

We can’t help but have our gast flabbered every time we se these abstruse measurements

Cryophilia ,

Europeans when confronted with a fraction: 🤯

Gladaed ,

That’s a mixed fraction in a foreign units System instead of a number. (Screw sizes are integers here) Edit: we also use 1 1/3 instead of 1-1/3 in germany, making your way of writing it down more difficult to read.

hydrospanner ,

Both are used and acceptable ways to write it in the US.

Also, are your screw size integers based on any units at all? If so it’s just another metric vs standard argument, and if not, it’s even less intuitive than even inches, because it’s just a case where one just needs to already know and be familiar with that sizing system, like shoe sizes or something.

StaySquared , in my job has medicine that wakes you up if you've fainted

That’s cool… I have a whole bottle (smelling salts) of it in powder form in case I need to pop off a personal record in one of my exercises.

yokonzo OP ,

I have a whole tray of it I just keep sitting on the floor… Okay it’s just a litterbox but still, it’ll grow hair on your chin!

StaySquared ,

lol…

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