Apparently the lack of sensitivity is an intended feature. My brother is a Photopass photographer at Disney World and has had to deal with these since January. He mentioned having to "bump" the wrist bands to read them. Whether this adds much (if any) real security it gives that illusion to the masses.
Wiilliam On Tuesday 19 November 2013, Allen Beddingfield wrote: > My observations: > 1. If they are going to put this into full production, they need to crank > up the sensitivity on their readers. Maybe I just had a bad band or > something, but it wasn't just as simple as touching the band to the Mickey > Mouse head on the door to open..touch it...touch it...rub it around at > just the right angle, rotate your arm around, and half the time take the > damned thing off and press it against the door to get the light to finally > turn green and let me into the room. The scanners at the drive-up gate > seemed to be a little more sensitive, but I found it impossible to bend my > arm around at the right angle to line it up while leaning out the car > window to do this. I'm a 6'3" guy with long arms, so I can't image a short > person trying to do that. I had to take the thing off and touch it to the > sensor every time I went through the drive-up gate. _______________________________________________ tech-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxmoose.com/mailman/listinfo/tech-chat
