Gadget can spot if your handbag is a fake

Sophisticated knock-offs can be difficult to spot, even for experts. It takes years of experience to see mistakes in the grain of the leather, or issues with the stitching - and even then there is a lot of guesswork involved. New York startup Entrupy believes it has developed technology that can solve those issues. Using a handheld microscope camera and computer vision software, the company claims its tech can spot fakes for 11 brands, including Chanel, Gucci and Louis Vuitton, with better than 98% accuracy. Second-hand clothes stores use specialist staff to detect counterfeits, but as Entrupy's co-founder Vidyuth Srinivasan told Bloomberg, "for businesses that are growing, that's not a scalable solution".