In light of this coming Sunday’s Handcar Regatta, a race of human-powered rail-track creations, the team over at Almost Scientific have created a ginormous 10 feet tall 10 feet wide hamster wheel they’re calling the Lumbering Contraption. What purpose does it serve? Well, it controls a slew of doohickeys that mobilize a giant nose picking machine. Weird, right? If only we could use human-sized hamster wheels.
Now don’t get too excited. This isn’t some crazy contraption that will scan your friend’s boobs when you’re out to dinner one night. This is a nice limited contraption that allows you to “scan” items with your iPhone. It’s essentially a stand that holds the iPhone up with a white piece of paper on the bottom to keep the background uniform. Still, for a device made of cardboard, it’s pretty decent. Probably great for dead insects.
If Joe McCarthy were still alive today, this contraption would make him very proud. For all of you paranoid home owners who still think that communists are invading our towns and homes, the Fingerprint Access Control is a way to keep track of those damn Red Coats from storming down your door without you knowing first. The Fingerprint Lock is controlled through your own internet, allowing you to see the finger print of whoever is at your door, just in case you were to notice a misplaced curve in the print.
And if that weren’t enough! You can also program a password ALONG with the fingerprint scan, just in case those radical Arabs don’t cut off the fingers of your friends and family. But, trust us, if someone wants to get in your house that bad, they’ll just break the damn window. — Andrew Dobrow
TAP-01 Fingerprint Access Control with Door Bell [via SCI FI Tech]
