Watch tells the boss how you're feeling at work
Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:57PM EDT
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Remember that spying mouse
with bio-sensors that tells you boss if you're stressed out at work?
IO9 found another gadget that gives the boss even more insight into your emotional
and physiological well-being while you're in the office. Exmocare's monitoring watch, called the BT2, can measure a person's heart
rate, location, body temperature, and skin moisture levels then sends all that
information to a central database using a Bluetooth connection.
On the opposite side of the room (if that's where he/she sits), your boss can access all this data in real-time to determine the emotional state of every person wearing the device "from anywhere in the world." The software runs in your computer's background and sends updates to a website automatically. This way your boss is alerted of any dangerous, non-productive situation.
The company says BT2 can detect different emotional states and even differentiate between them. This means that the next time you're telling the boss you're feeling sick, he'll be able to tell if you really need that day off or not. Pretty scary stuff.
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1 Posted by dclmtn11f on Sat Mar 15, 2008 4:17PM EDT Report Abuse
My father had to work two jobs to keep from losing the house, and would use his vacation days from job 1 to work extra at job 2. Needless to say, a co-worker saw him and reported him to his boss. Apparrently a job that pays around 12 dollars an hour with benefits is nothing compared to a 7-dollar-an-hour part-time job. (smell the gooey sarcasm?) One day, my dad had to take off job 2 early because his stomach was hurting something awful. While my dad was at home, in the bathroom for 10 minutes, his boss comes in and bangs on the door, demanding he get out!! WTF?! I don't believe in karma perse, but I think I got a little too much pleasure out of the boss' ensuing heart attack (probably especially because it was non-fatal payback).