Seriously? NEC Display Knows Your Face, Behavior

Oy! With E3 over and the bulk of my post-E3 work/writing/podcasting/napping completed, I'm finally able to return to my job here at Homotron. My thanks and admiration to the rest of the Homotron crew for keeping up the good work!

So I'll dive right in with a creepy little story about Japan's one-upsmanship with the UK and its CCTV crackdown program. Programme. Whatever.

NEC just announced a new plasma display that not only sports a tiny camera that can identify your age, gender and intuited shopping behavior, but beams a QR code to your cell phone that contains product information and death threats from government goons. And calling this chicanery "push advertising" isn't cute or clever, it's insulting. Push yourself, TV sets!

It's bad enough that I can't set foot outside my compound to buy my entourage a round of frappucccinos without stumbling over a paparazzo - now the TVs want my picture too?

Digital Stalker: NEC display knows your sex, age and shopping habits [Dvice]