Smart Mirror Takes Selfie Of Your Body To Help You Track Your Fitness

The world’s first home body scanner has just been released and it’ll cost you $1,395 to get one. Created by Naked Labs, this new high-tech device will forever change the way you look at your body – literally! The smart mirror snaps 3D shots of your body and highlights areas where your figure has changed. Each scan is stored in an app that tracks your fat percentage and muscle gain.

Some professionals have shared their concerns about the risk of hackers accessing revealing images, but Naked Labs has assured us that the scans and data and are safely stored on a cloud system, encrypted and decoupled from the customer’s name.

Rich Heye, senior vice president of engineering at Naked Labs says, “The scanner doesn’t have the capability to capture photographic images, which was a deliberate choice on our part so that folks could feel more secure placing the device in their homes.”

The Silicon Valley start-up revealed that it received $14 million in funding, contributed by the Founders FundThanks to the generous investment, Naked Labs has already started to ship out devices within the US, and the first delivery is expected to arrive in the fall.

The goal of the new high-end device is to help customers get a better insight into whats going on inside their bodies and work to reach fitness goals.

The way the system works is as follows. First, you step onto a scale that doubles up as a turntable. Over the course of 20 seconds, the scale spins you around 360 degrees, while the smart mirror takes a 3D scan of your body. The device is wirelessly synced to an app that displays your body-fat-percentage, circumferences, lean mass, and fat mass. Naked Labs also implemented a heat map technology in the app, which allows you to examine the changes in your body over days, weeks, and months.

35 People Share Clever Loopholes They Discovered

Tests, races, contests, promotions, none are even close to bulletproof, and clever, observant people can take quite a great advantage of them. From free food, free merchandise, cash rewards, traveling on the cheap, and much more, here are 35 clever loopholes that people have discovered.

The $25 Trip

A while back, I encountered an online store that had a promotion. This promotion consisted of offering free round-trip plane tickets to the customers who spent the most money on their site in a given month. The trip was not restricted either, offering the chance to visit any city or country on the face of the Earth. My friend, who could most likely outsmart Albert Einstein, noticed that the site also offered gift certificates for sale.

The $25 Trip

These were worth $25. So he proceeded to buy one gift certificate, and then buy another gift certificate with the previous gift certificate. This racked up the apparent spending on the site, and thus, winning the contest and visiting Australia for only $25.

The Upsize Loophole

Papa John’s Pizza had a contest a few years ago, which applied only to employees. The prize was movie tickets, and you could win by earning points. These points, however, were earned by convincing customers to upsize their pizza. This costs only $2 from a medium to a large pizza.

The Upsize Loophole

An employee found out that each time a customer chose a large one, he could put in a medium pizza which was upsized. This little trick went above his co-worker’s heads, and he ended up winning the tickets every week.

Unlimited Burgers

Wendy’s had a promotion that was also biased. A few years back, they had a promotion that offered a free burger if you were willing to complete a quick survey on the receipt. These surveys were on every single receipt. Naturally, after buying one burger, and completing the survey, you would get another burger. For that burger, you would also get another receipt with another survey, and so on.

Unlimited Burgers

This was a gold mine for a few students that bought one burger and then proceeded to complete four surveys and get four burgers for free. Of course, a few days later, Wendy’s noticed their loophole and stopped accepting surveys from the free burger’s receipts.

The Lazy Double Agent

I worked at a company not long ago, and there, I had two bosses. These guys didn’t interact with each other at all. However, they had the same level of authority over me. On some days, neither of the bosses told me what to do, and because they didn’t interact with each other, they didn’t know if I had work assigned by the other boss or not.

The Lazy Double Agent

This resulted in me staying home for numerous days and getting paid for it. The best part was that each boss thought I was working for the other boss.

Sea of Tea

This is also a relatively old loophole. I’m not sure which company did it, but a certain canned tea provider had a promotion. Each case of tea came with a coupon that offered another free case of canned tea.

Sea of Tea

This did not seem peculiar at first, except for the fact that each and every case came with a coupon, meaning that after buying one case and getting the initial coupon, all the future cases were practically free.

Free Computer for Christmas

During the time I was working at McDonald’s, Best Buy was currently having a promotion. Large sodas and fries had scratch-offs, which you could collect for a minimum of $1 only at Best Buy.

Free Computer for Christmas

I searched the trash for discarded scratch-offs. Needless to say, I bought myself a new computer which was actually free for Christmas.

Make Money Drinking Juice

Back in college, we had plenty of machines on campus, but one particular juice machine was my favorite. The juice in that machine cost $0.75, but it had a little malfunction.

Make Money Drinking Juice

Whenever someone wanted to buy juice with a dollar, the machine would give you back five quarters in change, or one dollar and a quarter. It took them months to figure out the issue. No use in mentioning that I bought a juice each and every day of those months.

Premium Cable on the House

This loophole worked wonders in the 80s. In those times, cable providers were offering a free trial that lasted a weekend for their premium channels in the hope that you would keep the subscription and continue paying for it. However, the process of unlocking the channels was with a signal sent to your cable box, and the same method was used to lock them in case you didn’t want to sign up.

Premium Cable on the House

So, if you just unplugged the cable box, the signal would never come through, thus giving you premium channels for free, that is until the cable company figured it out.

Outsmarted the Teacher

At some point, when I was in third grade, there was an emergency, and our teacher had to leave the classroom. She assigned a student to be in charge of the classroom, saying that we were not allowed to talk.

Outsmarted the Teacher

And if we talked, we needed to write down 100 times “I will not talk in class when instructed not to.” She didn’t mention anything after this, so we just wrote down the phrase 100 times, after which we just continued talking until the teacher came back.

Illegal Inception

There was a software that was used back in the day that allowed people to download services illegally.

Illegal Inception

Many used that same software to download the premium version of the same software, also illegally, and totally free.

Steps Towards a Hoodie

At our university, a contest was put in place to encourage students to walk more. A health tracker connected to the school account was put in place. It automatically converted our steps into points. The points, in turn, could be converted into free mugs, coffee, and a £30 hoodie. I discovered that by connecting the health app with a different health app I could input my steps manually, allowed me to win a few hoodies.

Steps Towards a Hoodie

I was clever, but my friend even more so, changing his height, because height determines how many steps you need to make to cover a certain distance. He probably claimed a dozen of those hoodies.

Papa John’s Strikes Again

Another loophole from Papa John’s Pizza that consisted of a promotion for the Super Bowl. There was a coin toss, and if you could guess the side correctly, you would get a voucher for a free pizza.

Papa John’s Strikes Again

You could enter the contest only once per email. So I took my time and entered the contest from 60 different email addresses I created. Half of the email addresses called tails, and the other half called heads. And needless to say, my diet was not so great for six weeks straight.

Clumsy Me

We went to Santa Monica with a rental car and parked in a parking lot for the weekend. They charged $25 for a full day. But weirdly enough, there was also an additional option that cost $10 in case you lost your ticket.

Clumsy Me

Well, clumsy me, I don’t know how it happened, but apparently, I lost the ticket every day.

Greetings, Goodbye

I have a local parking garage near where I live, and I usually park there for one simple reason. This parking garage works by giving you a ticket when you enter, and when you leave you must go to another machine to pay for the ticket.

Greetings, Goodbye

Depending on how long you stay, you get charged accordingly, and of course, the entrance gate lifts up only when it reads a paid ticket. Now I found that if I get a ticket and immediately go to pay for it, it’ll charge me for a couple of minutes, but it would let me stay there for eight hours straight, free of charge.

Who’s in Charge of the Prices?

Some time ago, I noticed something peculiar at Burger King. It seemed that buying two five-piece chicken nugget meals was cheaper than a meal consisting of eight chicken nuggets.

Who’s in Charge of the Prices?

Some say that free food is more delicious than when you have to pay for it, and I surely agree.

Extra Help, Anyone?

I had a job back in the day where our time was precisely scheduled, at least that’s how it seemed. At some point, I discovered a loophole regarding the schedule. If, for example, you started your shift at a particular hour, you had an additional 7 minutes to arrive without any penalization. But if you arrived past the 7-minute mark, it would automatically consider that you came 15 minutes late.

Extra Help, Anyone?

This also worked at the end of the shift. If you stayed for more than 7 minutes past your end of the shift, it would consider that you stayed an extra 15 minutes. I frequently asked my co-workers if they needed any help so that I could reach that 7-minute mark. And I think at the end of the year, I had almost an entire extra payday.

Claw Malfunction

My family and I used to go to an Italian restaurant, and there was a candy claw machine that we would always play. I don’t know how other candy claw machines work. But this one didn’t register that you picked something up if the claw closed all the way.

Claw Malfunction

We noticed that and proceeded to pick smaller candy, and the claw wouldn’t register that we picked anything. This went on for some time, and free candy is free candy. I think they removed the machine.

Two Birds With One Suspension

When I was in high school, they had a rule that said it is forbidden for someone to attend prom if they, at any point in the current semester, had a Saturday detention. Of course, I did something stupid, and the teacher assigned me for detention.

Two Birds With One Suspension

My girlfriend desperately wanted me to come to the prom. So I just kept dodging the detention, and they kept adding more until it transformed into a day of suspension. My high school didn’t have any rules against students that were in suspension. So I got to go to the prom, and I also got a day off from school. I see it as a total win.

I Was Reborn, Repeatedly

In my teen years, I got an idea. Every year, on my birthday, I got a free promotional ice cream cone.

I Was Reborn, Repeatedly

So, naturally, I made one email for each month of the year; thus, I got free birthday ice cream each month. I can say those were some delicious years.

Parking Trick

At some point in the past, parking meters had the capacity to accept credit cards without actually being connected. The process was that when reading a card, they checked it for banned numbers from a locally stored list, a process that took place once a month. In the end, the transactions would be downloaded, processed, and the blacklist updated.

Parking Trick

This, however, could be bypassed via a gift card backed by MasterCard or Visa. The gift card could be used on anything, then, with the balance depleted, used for the entire month on parking. When the data was extracted and processed, and the number was put on the blacklist. You just had to use another cheap gift card, the end, free parking.

The Slowest One Wins

In the town where I grew up there was a tournament that consisted of a bike race. The catch was that the slowest one wins, meaning that the one who crosses the finish line last wins. There was a rule that when you touch the ground, there would be a five-second subtraction from your time, but it didn’t specifically say anything about just staying in one place.

The Slowest One Wins

I proceeded to plant my feet on the ground and watch the rest of the racers go past the finish line, after which I would wait an additional 5 seconds and then cross it last. Unfortunately, I didn’t win because they considered it cheating.

Free Transit

In Toronto, the Presto card was a new thing, allowing you to use it on public transit with just a swipe. When I got myself one, directly out of the box, it was broken. It would work only about 10% of the time.

Free Transit

So when I was in public transit, I would try to scan it, get frustrated in such an obvious way that, when the transit operators saw me, they would just let me through. This was a handy trick to save some money on public transit, but eventually I got a new, working one.

Unfair but Effective

I had a job a while back, and the bosses told us every single Monday that we must work overtime on the next Saturday, just to cancel it Friday. They did this for a couple of reasons.

Unfair but Effective

One, they bypassed the need to give the mandatory 24-hour overtime notice, as well as taking their time in figuring if they actually needed the workers. Plus it seemed that they did a good deed offering us our weekend.

Winter Loophole

The usual thing to do in winter when you have a pick-up truck is to buy sandbags to weigh it down, so it doesn’t get stuck that easily.

Winter Loophole

However, I didn’t see it as a rule. So I just weighed it down with snow. And the best part is that when the warmth comes, it just melts right off.

Movie Time

This worked pretty well back in the day, but I’m not sure it still works today. When my friends and I wanted to go to the movies, we would simply buy two tickets, and enter into the cinema.

Movie Time

Then one of us would go back out for a cigarette, carrying both the tickets and then come in with an additional friend, rinse and repeat until everybody was inside.

I Plead Guilty

In my home state of Michigan, a law existed which stated that no minor could plead guilty for a crime if they didn’t have a lawyer. I used this a couple of times, myself. When I got in trouble, I plead guilty, and they would simply give me a sentencing date, after which they would let me leave.

I Plead Guilty

And approximately a week later, a letter would come in, stating that my case was dismissed or thrown out because it’s not legal to plead guilty without a lawyer while being a minor.

Ah, Yes, the Hygiene

I found some in-ear headphones that I liked in a large electronics store. Unfortunately, while they looked nice, they sounded terrible and were uncomfortable, so I wanted to return them. The store told me that they couldn’t be returned due to hygiene reasons.

Ah, Yes, the Hygiene

I checked the return policy rules to see if there was some loophole that I could exploit without any luck, except having a two-year guarantee. Obviously, I proceeded to wreck those headphones. I then went back to the store to request a refund, which they gladly gave me.

Young Entrepreneur

I attended a Catholic school in which a uniform was mandatory. However, there was a jeans day pass which came in different colors and allowed us to wear something else besides the uniform.

Young Entrepreneur

There was a white color, so I went on and copied a bunch of them, and then proceeded to sell them throughout my school.

It Might Rain

My school has a parking lot, and for a parking permit for a car, you must pay $220, but for a motorcycle, only $30.

It Might Rain

The weird thing is that our motorcycle permits allowed us to add a second vehicle, such as a car, because it might rain.

Oops, Sorry Bro

When we were kids, my brother and I used to go to the pool, and I remember him yelling once, “Last one in the pool is a rotten egg”, after which, he jumped in the pool.

Oops, Sorry Bro

Shortly after, it came to me that if I don’t jump in the pool, technically, he is the last one in the pool. Thus he was the rotten egg.

Incentives

At my school, they encouraged the students to improve scores on standardized tests, offering nice incentives. I proceeded to fail the first year, on purpose, of course, and then worked hard in the second year.

Incentives

The school offered me a card with which I can exit the campus at lunch whenever I want, as well as a free, exclusive parking spot.

Intelligence Test

In high school, I wanted a job, so I applied for a summer position with the county. An intelligence test was mandatory.

Intelligence Test

The tests were not easy. But at some point, I noticed that the answers were actually on a sheet attached to the back, and separated by a carbon paper sheet. Of course, I peeled it off and used the answers.

Clever Little Fellow

In seventh grade, I had a keyboarding class. In this class we needed to type, create large tables, and complete math problems.

Clever Little Fellow

I proceeded to use Excel, imputing the formulas, and copy-pasting the table sheet. I did the task in a fraction of the time. Our teacher got angry and said I manipulated the rules.

American Education

American education and colleges do not fully understand either European or British education systems.

American Education

So this is how many people from Europe get into college at young ages in America.

Netflix Loophole

In other countries, you can’t access American Netflix, and there is sometimes an annoying notification that blocks you from using a VPN. However, I found that when I click the free VPN button multiple times and then enter into Netflix, it works.

Netflix Loophole

If the notification pops up, I simply exit Netflix, click the VPN a couple more times, and there we go.