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[Mark Rober] was fed up with packages going missing. He kept receiving notifications that his shipments had been delivered, but when checking his porch he found nothing there. Reviewing the CCTV footage revealed random passers-by sidling up to his porch and stealing his parcels. It was time to strike back. Over six months, [Mark] and his friends painstakingly designed, prototyped and iterated the perfect trap for package thieves, resulting in a small unit disguised as an Apple HomePod. The whole scheme is wonderfully over-engineered and we love it.
The main feature of the device is a spinning cup on the top which contains a large amount of glitter. When activated, it ejects glitter in every directions. You could say it's harmless, as it's just glitter. But then again, glitter has a way of staying with you for the rest of your life — turning up at the least expected times. It certainly leaves an emotional impression.
The trap uses an accelerometer to detect movement, geo-fencing to determine when the package has left the property, glitter and a fart spray to make the thief regret it, and smartphones to capture the thief's reaction for the enjoyment of the hacker.
Also at BBC.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @07:50PM (2 children)
When they don't show pictures or describe ethnicity, then you know exactly what the demographic is (or is not).
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @08:20PM (1 child)
They did show pictures you dumbass, and some of the thieves were white.
Racist fucks around here with functional pattern matching neural networks but broken pre-frontal cortex.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 18 2018, @08:25PM
Are you saying the white ones are the stupid ones that got caught? You cant base the demographics on such a biased sample.