Robometer concept device promises to help you feel happy
By Donald Melanson 
posted May 1st 2008 1:11PM
posted May 1st 2008 1:11PM
Detecting emotional cues is hardly a new endeavor, but this so-called Robometer concept device takes a slightly different (but not entirely unique) approach to things, with it actually promising to help you feel happy by prompting you when you stray too far into tediousness. To do that, the rig makes use of a GSR lead to detect your galvanic skin response, along with accelerometers that detect repetitive movement, and a voice sensor that promises to detect repetitive phrases. Those then get translated into various warning levels, with the device ultimately letting out a voice prompt when you're perilously close to becoming too tense or unhappy. Not surprisingly, there's no indication that the project will ever move beyond the concept stage, but you can get a glimpse at what we could be missing out on in the video available at the link below.
[Via Gizmo Watch]
[Via Gizmo Watch]
WARNING! there's no hope. jump from nearest bridge.
That's one sexy hand
Hmmm, quite a perverted headline...
Emotional girls should all wear mood rings
or better yet, print out their interest level in you!
So this thing'll know when youre about to take it off and smash it into a million frickin pieces for being so ugly?
Only God knows why you are so ugly my son.
it promises to make you happy until you fail to ever get a date again because you're wearing the damn thing
I thought the point of it was to replace your dates and directly stimulate your 'happyness' spot?
it stimulates your prostate?
by the looks of it.... yep!
Just like in American Pie, but without the nurse...
I'm guessing repetitive motions make it think you're happy
Oh no he didn't!
Some of us enjoy "repetitive movements."
If I want to get bitched at, I'll get married.
Computer has made happiness mandatory. Failure to be happy is punishable by summary execution.
does it detect impure thoughts?
It works because when you are not happy, tiny microchips sense that you are sad with break through technology. Then the watch SHOCKS THE CRAP OUT OF YOU UNTIL YOU ARE HAPPY!!!!
NOT BE HAPPY OR IT WILL KILL YOU.
happy happy happy! joy! joy! joy!
Buy all of them, and you will have happy feelings!
yay............
So, after all this technology mumbo jumbo involved, all this thing does is tell you when it senses you are becoming unhappy? Did I read this all correctly? It's gotta do something else useful, right? There's got to be more to it.....I hope. Or, did the Technology God take a major dump and this came out?
Wearing this in public + being happy is seemingly impossible.
Seriously. That thing looks ridiculous. It reminds me of old movies that try to nail the "future" concept and fail.
On the other hand, if this comes out and succeeds, I guess they were right all along.
The thought of the TNG episodes with Data's emotion chip springs to mind when I think about this product. =P
Im annoyed allright. *shakes fist over head
For now it looks funny for us but in future other devices will take the useful part of it and possibly will make easy our life.