Neat Net Tricks

Back when I was a kid, I followed the perils of Dick Tracy in the comic strips, I marveled at the technology that made possible his two-way wrist radio. Of course, that was pure fiction and I doubted even then that such a pipe dream would ever be possible. Now, many decades later, a two-way wrist radio wouldn’t even warrant a second glance but I’m wondering again if old Dick would find new technology worthwhile in his pursuit of the bad guys.

With this one , cops use their iPhone to snap a picture of someone they have just apprehended. That photo is then run through some facial recognition software and matched against a database to provide the suspect’s identity.

Of course, if Dick had used an iPhone 60 years ago, we would have thought the concept of what an iPhone could do rather impossible as well. Sometimes I still do.