Magazine pictures fool vending machines

June 30, 2008

Fujitaka, the company behind the face recognition hardware installed in over 4,000 cigarette vending machines across Japan has a new problem to tackle. Kids using magazine pictures of old people. Seems a Sankei Sports news reporter went around Osaka and Kobe using different pictures from magazines to fool the machines...

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Metal Gear Solid 4 on Wii?

June 30, 2008

A Kotaku reader living in Georgia spotted this at his local Sams Club. It clearly shows Metal Gear Solid in a Wii packaging with a price listed at $52.66. What’s weird is that Metal Gear Solid 4 isn’t expected to be released on the Wii system. This has to be...

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