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Exmocare BT2 Allows Your Employers To Monitor Your Emotions, Arousal Level

Exmocare's released emotion-monitoring watches before, but this BT2 model seems to be directed at the service industry, meaning that bosses can use these wristbands to monitor their employee's emotional states. The control panel (screenshot after the jump) displays a summary of each person's heart rate, location, body temperature and skin moisture levels reported by an individual's device. If you thought your boss didn't know when you were looking at porn while you were supposed to be working, well, think again. And in our case, the watches would probably break from overuse, thanks to our constant state of arousal. [Exmocare via io9]

5:00 PM on Sat Mar 15 2008
By Jason Chen
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daftrok at 05:12 PM on 03/15/08
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I'm gonna put this on my secretary and see if she wants to make some hard copys. Awwright
citizen024 at 05:42 PM on 03/15/08
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"And in our case, the watches would probably break from overuse, thanks to our constant state of arousal" i knew you wach a lot of porn, but enough to break a shiny new gadget?!
Scully at 05:50 PM on 03/15/08
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Looking at the status report, mine would say "watch off wrist" all the time.
Skeptic at 05:57 PM on 03/15/08
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@citizen024:

Well, depends on which wrist you are wearing it on--you are wearing it on your wrist, right?
Kaiser-Machead at 06:40 PM on 03/15/08
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Let's hope that the bathrooms are shielded from the signal, cuz, well....you know.
dvicklund at 07:06 PM on 03/15/08
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Come on, I don't need a watch to tell me how turned on I am.

Now, it would be VERY useful to put this on someone else and not tell them what it did...

Happy birthday, hot lady!
callit at 07:29 PM on 03/15/08
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Is anyone else concerned by the "Fire Alert" button?
Whammo at 08:37 PM on 03/15/08
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Is anyone actually stupid enough to wear these at work? Why not attach some probes to my balls while you're at it?
lafond66 at 08:51 PM on 03/15/08
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@callit: I was wondering that. Maybe it like, makes the units beep like crazy or something? Seems very odd.
birdgirl39 at 08:57 PM on 03/15/08
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I'd quit that job, ASAP. Unless of course, they were paying me GOBS of money.....
gotenki at 09:05 PM on 03/15/08
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Would this even be legal?
heroineworshipper at 12:09 AM on 03/16/08
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It it was Apple, it would have already sold out.
deusdiabolus at 02:16 AM on 03/16/08
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And what is your boss going to do with a building full of employees whose emotions are rapidly fluctuating based on stress and arousal?

Nothing.
hnkelley at 05:02 AM on 03/16/08
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If we ALL wore it at my job, I can think of several people who would finally get the help (anger management) they need! But then, most of us would quit like yesterday.
Morose at 11:16 AM on 03/16/08
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I'd be interested in one of these for the sake of learning how to throw the sensors off or otherwise tamper with it.
geowrian at 12:36 PM on 03/16/08
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Maybe the "Fire Alert" button should be changed to "Fire Employee"?

On a more serious note, this *could* have great uses for hospices, hospitals, for the elderly and sickly, etc. For regular employees...even if it were deemed legal, it'll never happen.
ry_ry at 02:49 PM on 03/16/08
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You know the magician's trick of stopping your heat beat momentarily with a ball? I wonder if the readout goes flatline...

Boss: *Display beeps and shows flatline* Oh shit, Johnson's dead! *Runs into office*
Johnson: Hey boss, what's up?
Boss: The readout said you were dead...? WTF?
Johnson: Uhhh, no...I'm just fine. I'm not dead if I'm talking to you...

The best way to give your boss a heart attack daily :D
ry_ry at 02:58 PM on 03/16/08
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ooooo or...work on mediation to get your heart rate down to like 30bpm :)
CaliforniaKid at 08:11 PM on 03/16/08
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Skin moisture? This thing can double as a lie detector.
RAYNECHYLD at 06:46 PM on 03/17/08
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"Its the pattern on the pants. Its the pleets. An optical illusion. Im actually taking them back to the, pants...store"