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Emotion-Tracking Wearable Device Lets Your Boss Monitor Your Feelings

So you get a job in customer service, and your boss says your dealings with customers are going to be monitored for "quality." No, you won't be on CCTV — you'll be wearing a watch-sized device on your wrist that tracks your emotions by measuring heart rate, your location, body temperature, and skin moisture levels. This device will be sending your data via bluetooth to a central database. If you get too angry or too sleepy while dealing with a customer, your boss will be alerted with a message. Too much anger, and you might be fired. It sounds like something out of a Philip K. Dick novel, but it's actually a realistic application for a piece of technology called the BT2, released today by Exmocare. More »

5:00 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Annalee Newitz
2,337 views, 20 comments

Latest by n/a: Wow. I'm quite honestly shocked that no-one else picked up on this being a direct parallel to a device in the Neal Stephenson and J. Frederick George book Interface that does much the same thing. more »