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Ministry of Silly Walks can ID the way you walk

Say Cleese: You're on candid camera
By INQUIRER staff
Friday, 28 April 2006, 09:53
A REPORT said boffins at Osaka University can produce excellent results identifying folk just on how they walk.

According to the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, infrared cameras can snap people and by using two angles can identify an individual with 90 per cent accuracy.

The data caught from the cameras compares the way a person walks and swings their arms to come up with precision identification. ยต

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