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I've had one too many of my Lean Cuisines get eaten without me. Now, that's just sad, when somebody goes and steals your Lean Cuisine. Making off with the take-away box from FATS Barbecue I can see, but my fat-free spinach canoli? C'mon.
So to fight the problem, we cobble together a "mousetrap"
frozen lunch package that looks just like any other frozen quick-prep food product, that clicks a quick picture of whoever opens the package and emails the picture via prepaid cell connection to the recipient account you designate. Set it and forget it. You can either have the picture sent to yourself - so you can nab the bastard - or predesignate a recipient besides yourself, so you can send your suspect a photo of himself caught in the act. That assumes, of course, that you guessed correctly who the freezer thief was.
Don't forget it so long that somebody eventually decides it's junk and tosses it. Then your pictures will be of the squasher truck's compacter plate getting closer and closer.
32-P
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus
[normzone, Sep 22 2008]
Anti-Theft Lunch Bag (design prototype)
http://www.skforlee...work/lunch_bag.html
Another approach. Doesn't really work for packaged frozen food, though. [jutta, Sep 23 2008]
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Just make something covered with cottage cheese and
smelling of fish, vinegar, garlic, and wasabi... |
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...then pack your real lunch under it. |
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suggest title: Decoy lunch |
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Why not place a video spycam inside your ref too so you can evaluate the motive of each opener? In this high-tech environment, a still shot is not fair enough and definitely too crude. |
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...Unfortunately, those just too curious are often made suspects... |
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Cost of pre-paid connectivity (per event): $ 4.00. |
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Seeing your boss eat your Tofu and grilled vegetable bagel drizzle with cumin vinegrette: Priceless. |
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There's some things money can buy...for everything else, there's Halfbakery. |
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[rotary], the camera is actually inside the package. Nothing happens until you actually open it - curiousity is just handling and looking at it the package. Opening it is something else again. |
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I know it isn't cheap, but if it prevented the loss of several lunches, that's money well-spent. |
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Alternatively, you could just use a dye-pack rigged to the tear-off zip strip on the carton. It wouldn't be too hard to identify the culprit in the office when he/she has to walk around all afternoon with the public stigma of blue stained hands. |
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Problem is that you may not even get your one shot, the fridge is bound to be outside the cameras temp minimum. Go a little simpler and add a camera outside the fridge that records everything. Then sit back and watch the show. You can go even cheaper and put in a baby monitor and watch all the fun. Some can add on a VCR for evidence. |
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It's much easier to just inject a smidgen of
32-P into the otherwise normal luncheon
item. It's then very easy to tell who the
culprit is. Or was. |
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[+] for the overall concept behind the idea, but why not get a meal cooked with SmartWater ? |
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A few of the annos remind me of the time I took a sharpie marker, colored a handful of jelly beans black, then asked my friends who wants them. His teeth were black for the rest of the day. |
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Alternately:
Take lean cuisine box (or favorite microwavable dinner), remove food (via mouth), in place of food in container place gasoline and crumpled aluminium foil and re-seal. Mark very clearly: Do not microwave/eat! This is not yours. Then simply blame whoever sets the room on fire. |
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Why cell phone? Use your
company's wifi. You can even
rig up a little solar panel,
and charge it off the
refrigerator's light. |
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motion-sensor, tiny speaker, swirly hypnodisc...
"This is not the lunch you are looking for" |
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"This lunch has been here for three or four seasons. It is for sale, if you want it." |
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A burrowing spycam suddenly lurch from lunch to launch a church-projector picture image of the culprit among the pulpit overweight servants... |
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Yes, [rotary], very James Joyce, very Bollocks. |
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I'm on it! I've had one too many of my Hungry Man dinners taken here at work. Refigicam will be built by the end of the week. |
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Just place a sticker on your (opaque)
lunchbox which reads "Stool Sample,
March 2001" |
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Why has no-one suggested RFID? Has their therapy been effective? |
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I'm suggesting a camera or two on the fridge door. When the door handle is pulled, take a photo of the person. When the door is closed, take a flash picture of the inside of the fridge, including the contents. Send files to computer network. |
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Why do you need a flash ? There's that little light, surely ? |
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The little light goes off when the door is closed. You'd have learned that as a kid, if you had a mean big brother. |
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I suppose you could activate the light for the camera, or take the photo just as the door closes. |
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//that clicks a quick picture of whoever opens the package//
Not being a consumer of 'Lean Cuisine' (sounds 'orrible if you ask me, guv), I assume we are talking about a cardboard sleeve? If so then I foresee a problem with getting the camera angle right, especially for a single shot. Which end is the packet going to be opened from, and which way up will it be at the time? Also, wouldn't the camera have to be attached to the microwaveable container and therefore likely to explode when it goes into the oven (I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, just pointing it out).
I like the overall concept but I feel that the detail needs a bit more work.
</Dragons Den> I'm out! </DD> |
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[bacon] //RFID// Perfect! Add
one to a meal, then walk
around the office after lunch
with an RFID scanner. |
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[UB] Brilliant - doable, vicious, subtle. <gleeful cackle> |
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//Also, wouldn't the camera have to be attached to the microwaveable container and therefore likely to explode when it goes into the oven// |
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But that's it! An exploding Lean Cuisine would identify the thief in an instant. The body, see, that's the thief! |
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