Users of a busy public restroom in China must stand for three seconds in front of a dispenser to receive a two-foot section of bathroom tissue.
BEIJING — A busy public restroom in China has begun deploying high-tech facial recognition technology to wipe out the problem of toilet paper theft.
At Temple of Heaven, a popular tourist attraction in Beijing, users must stand for three seconds in front of a camera-equipped dispenser in order to receive a two-foot section of bathroom tissue.
The $1,000 machine will not dispense any more to the same user for the next nine minutes.
The unusual restriction aims to « cope with the behavior of taking public toilet paper home which is theft and abuse of public resource, » a park manager told NBC News.
After providing toilet paper for free for 10 years, « we decided to use face recognition technology as our latest measure to curb excessive paper use which affects the interests of other users, » added the official, who gave his family name as Xing.
