Racism... in electronics... :p

[niky]

When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother's Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, "Did someone blink?" No one had. "I thought the camera was broken!" Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked "bug-eyed," the messages stopped.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100122/wl_time/08599195464300

And to think... it's a Japanese-made camera.

Maybe it only discriminates against Chinese and Korean eyes?

Now I know that I won't be buying a Coolpix. You can hardly see my eyes in my pictures, either.

 

[Public'sTwin]

A similar thing has been known to happen with Logitech's facial recognition software on their webcams when used by those with a darker complexion: that is, African, South Asian, and some middle eastern people "don't exist" in front of the webcam.