Sanyo massage chairs also detect lies?

Sure, there's quite a few ways to sniff out fibs for those who just can't "read" body language all that well, and there's certainly a entire market saturated with massage chairs that supposedly coax your muscles in return for a hefty sum of cash, but it looks like Sanyo's lineup of massage seats just might sport a hidden agenda. According to Sanyo's ever-descriptive website, its array of massage chairs sport "physical shape sensors, power recline, and GK roller technology" among other things, but the standout feature is the "stiffness detection sensor" that "locates areas of physical stiffness and gauges fatigue by changes in skin temperature, perspiration, and pulse." Interestingly enough, those three measurements are the things lie detection tools are made up of my friend, so if you've got the 1337 skills to wire up a massage chair to some swank analytical software, you could potentially extract just about any truth you ever wanted while the culprit simply enjoys the ride.

[Via CNET]

[AJ @ Jan 17th 2007 7:24PM]

Perhaps you could wire one of those up to hit pressure points, to just persuade people to not lie ;)

[atrain @ Jan 17th 2007 7:25PM]

But since when did chairs start shipping with api's?

That will take some serious hacking to be done, but its still a great idea.

[Chris Merchant @ Jan 17th 2007 7:39PM]

>But since when did chairs start shipping with api's?

Chairs of the future.

Clerk: "Okay then, here's your reciept, and here's your software and sync cord"
Customer: "Uh.. for my sofa?"
Clerk: "Yep, USB 4.0, I'll have you know. Syncs directly to your computer"
Customer: "Syncs... what?"
Clerk: "Who cares? We'll throw USB ports on anything these days."

Chris

[Paul @ Jan 17th 2007 9:58PM]

my 2 mega pixel camera phone takes light and transforms it into a digital picture
consiquently that is the exact same thing a 10 megapixel camera does!!
maybe with a little software hax0ring I can turn my 2 megapixel camera into a 10 megapixel camera

[atrain @ Jan 17th 2007 10:16PM]

Paul: I think your taking the idea to literally.

The idea isn't to install Linux and put huge neon "lying" lights all over the place. Its talking about an interesting opportunity for hackers to interface with the human body, rather than just machines. Its also a fun project to learn to understand how the machine interprets the humans stiffness, and to play around with electronics in general.

Its not about making a lie detecting chair, its about making a chair detect lies. Its about the challenge and the experience. The point is not to come out with a awesome chair, but to have learnt more about technologies interaction with people.

In your example, it would be discovering that your camera is a downgraded model from a 10MP camera, that it has the potential to be 10MP, and hacking it so that it is 10MP.