Cat Feeder with Facial Recognition

What took so long?

From Scientific American: 

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Facial recognition systems match a face, for example, at an airport or border crossing, with a photo and identity on file. Now Taiwan inventor Mu-Chi Sung thinks that this stealthy technology could also be used with other potentially uncooperative individuals — his cats.

Sung adapted facial recognition so it could be part of his Bistro smart cat feeder. Bistro features food and water dishes inside a clear plastic enclosure big enough for a cat to slip its head in. Sensors measure how much the cat consumes. Bistro's target is multi-cat households, so a camera studies the cat's face to determine which feline is feeding. Owners can thus know whether a fat cat is pigging out while less aggressive housemates go hungry.

Sung created an Indiegogo campaign, hoping to make them available starting next March.

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$179 (cat[s] not included).