Sandia Labs is working on PCs that can sense how you’re feeling:
Aided by tiny sensors and transmitters called a PAL (Personal Assistance Link) your machine (with your permission) will become an anthroscope — an investigator of your up-to-the-moment vital signs, says Sandia project manager Peter Merkle. It will monitor your perspiration and heartbeat, read your facial expressions and head motions, analyze your voice tones, and correlate these to keep you informed with a running account of how you are feeling — something you may be ignoring — instead of waiting passively for your factual questions. It also will transmit this information to others in your group so that everyone can work together more effectively.
