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Other than it not needing a laser (so the cost to implement has dropped by many orders of magnitude), sure.
TTFN - Kent
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I'd imagine the biggest cost in this scenario is software/processing/expertise rather than the laser or camera.
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How would they do if I were eating the bag of chips?
Probably not too well, since my wife cannot understand me when I'm doing that in the same room with her.
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Exactly! So, for security mind you, we must eat all the chips!
TTFN - Kent
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Looking for a great technical skill to develop to make you all the more marketable in today’s increasingly fast-paced industry? Have you considered COBOL? "That is not dead which can eternal lie,"
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I took COBOL in school...never used it for anything...maybe I should dust off my old textbooks 
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I googled "learn cobol" and the first site that comes up is a university site which tries to entice you to learn.
Anyway the following page has numerous links to the materials online at the University, but the really funny thing is that there are many items marked
New 2002
hahaha... and look at the design of that site, you can tell it was "turn of the century HTML design".
http://www.csis.ul.ie/cobol/course/Default.htm[^]
"Things are getting better all the time."
"It couldn't get any worse!"
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Looks like they're breaking down the doors to get in on the ground floor of that opportunity...maybe I should write some Code Project articles and establish myself as an 'expert'
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I didn't keep my COBOL and Fortran books, but I have an Ada book. 
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Quote: 1.5 million new lines of COBOL code are written every day
5 billion lines of new COBOL code are developed every year
What's wrong with these two bullets? Why has my perception of the credibility of the rest of the article just crashed harder than a y2k bug? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Its potential is huge; so are the obstacles. Almost as many standards as things
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I'm still not sure we've seen a killer app for this. The smart meter is pretty close but it doesn't really need an internet of other things to talk to.
I can see electric cars having a wee chat to work out the best time of evening to do their charge cycle maybe? However most of my things (microwave oven, lights, TV etc.) really need my presence to be of any use to me...or am I missing something?
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Docker, a new container technology, is hotter than hot because it makes it possible to get far more apps running on the same old servers and it also makes it very easy to package and ship programs. Here's what you need to know about it. "Can you repeat the part of the stuff where you said all about things"
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Today I am excited to announce the release of three important updates for Visual Studio developers. Now with... uhm... OK, JSON brace matching seems nice?
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Publish webjob directly from within visual studio is pretty useful too.
In related news, I now have no free disk space anywhere. 
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Installed, I'm liking this Git integration, methods/classes/properties etc are annotated with their revision history, clicking on this goes into more detail, very slick
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A five-minute interruption can cause the loss of an hour of production for the dedicated techie -- most of the time. Sorry about this distraction. It'll just take a minute.
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The future emerging for Microsoft under Nadella is a mixed bag of hope and turmoil. As long as he's not shouting and dancing, it's an improvement
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Kent Sharkey wrote: As long as he's not shouting and dancing, it's an improvement
You are so right, but don't forget to include "no sticking out tongue either!" Please none of that.
We are traumatized from those photos of Ballmer. 
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Get started with cross-platform game development with the Unity framework. In the first article in a four-part series, Adam Tuliper explores the interface and architecture of Unity. Gaming, Azure, OneDrive, and solving Sudoku in this month's MSDN Magazine
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Interesting...I guess I can see why they killed XNA now...pretty impressive if it can do everything it says it can do.
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At the time XNA was killed, it still had lots of advantages over Unity.
Microsoft's main problem was trying to fit game development tools in with their upper management strategies. They were overwhelmed with changes in the enterprise software industry and didn't want to divert effort to consumer-oriented products.
Microsoft might not dominate product spaces today like it did in the 1990's, but it still doesn't cancel products due to superior competition (it's not given up fighting with Apple phones, Google search, Amazon cloud, etc).
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Before XNA was 'Managed DirectX'...people were just becoming dependent on it then Microsoft flushed it down the toilet in favour of XNA, which they have now flushed down the toilet in favour of Unity...the reason Microsoft is facing such headwinds is because they have no credibility left; nobody wants to invest some years of effort on things that are going to be abandoned on some 'top-down' manager's whim...Microsoft's biggest problem is wayyyy too much management.
I've said this before but it bears repeating...if Microsoft wants to succeed in the gadget space, they have to abandon the idea of a 'Store' with all the pesky developer keys and the rest of it...they should do it the way they always have; you build a program, install it and run it...the 'Big Brother' consumer monitoring style only works with cults like Apple and Google, who's followers will do whatever they are told...Microsoft users have always been the first to criticize Microsoft...that's what made their software better than anybody else's for such a long time.
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