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Scanning 400 faces by ROBOCOP

If you're planning to go to some sort of swarming event in Brazil and you're required by the police, you might want to stay home.

The system will be donning extraordinary glasses outfitted with small cameras that "can capture 400 facial images per second and send them to a central computer database storing up to 13 million faces," says the Telegraph.

If a particular face in the crowd matches that of a known criminal, a little screen attached to the glasses will alert the office wearing them. The system compares 46,000 unique points on each person's face for accuracy.

The facial acknowledgment technology works for large crowds at a distance of over 150 feet but the glasses can be used to hone in on a specific human being up to 12 miles away as well. UN real.

Police in Brazil will soon be testing the glasses at sporting events and concerts in hopes of readying the technology for a wide deployment to officers during the 2014 World Cup. And if this technology works as well as we're being led to believe, it's not a huge stretch to visualize that police departments all over the place will be using it in the near future.