I took my brother to Auckland international airport last night and after doing the automated check-in, we proceeded to the automated bag drop-off 'counter' where you place your bags on a treadmill, it weighs it etc, you scan your passport and boarding pass again etc.., and then it feeds your bag through to the main treadmill where it takes it through to the baggage handlers. 

My beady eyes noticed that they are employing 2 x Xbox One Kinect cameras in the baggage tunnel, I suppose to take photos of your bags and do whatever measuring they do. Does anyone know any more about this system? 

FWIW, the bag was 24.2kg, an egregious 1.2kg over the 23 kg limit. The screen told us this would cost us NZ$200! Would we like to 'continue or re-pack'? Yeah right. 

There was even a credit card slot for payment built into the unit, making your daylight robbery that much more efficient. A big F.U. to Air NZ.