Tinder’s April Fool’s joke this year was a “height verification” feature, that would auto-magically determine a user’s height and prevent them from lying about it on their profile.
Their mockup was light on plausibility – the phone just happened to know your height no matter where and how you held it, not even an attempt to seem legit like having the user take a photo near a landmark or something – but I wonder, in combination with a smartphone and a networked device, it could work.
Maybe the user has to wear a jacket with an RFID chip in the shoulder of a jacket and hold out their arm fully extended with their phone in their hand, and the distance between the shoulder and the phone will be calculated somehow. Maybe a sensor is set at a certain height in a Tinder Pop-up (competing dating app Bumble did something similar, sans networked devices 🙁 ) where users walk by and are auto-magically measured and associated with their account.
A couple of my guy friends are 6’6″, so I’ll get them to be my test subjects if I do try something like this for the final project.