"SceneTap" App Scans Faces Of Bar-Goers To Guess Age, Gender

"SceneTap's" ability to guess how old people are and whether they're men or women relies on advances in a field known as biometrics. A camera at the door snaps your picture, and software maps your features to a grid. By measuring distances such as the length between the nose and the eyes and the eyes and the ears, an algorithm matches your dimensions to a database of averages for age and gender.  Seems a little creepy to say the least but according the Scene Taps CEO, Cole Harper, the app doesn't invade patrons privacy because the only data it stores is their estimated ages and genders and the time that they arrived, not their images or measurements.  One can only imagine what the future will hold and whether or not camera-equipped smartphones will have the ability to recognize faces with a click of the virtual shutter.