Exmocare has released their BT2 wrist watch, which is wrist watch equipped with emotional and arousal levels monitoring functions. The watch seems to be heading to the service industry. Meaning it’ll be used by bosses who’re interested in monitoring their employees’ emotional and even arousal states.
The BT2 wrist watch has a control panel which displays a summary of a person’s heart rate, location, body temperature and skin moisture levels. The control panel will be installed on a computer owned by those who’re interested in the wearer’s emotional and arousal levels.
The BT2 watch will be sending the data wirelessly using Bluetooth to the control panel. So, now you know the one who’s monitoring your emotional level will be your boss. You boss will be able to know why your productivity has been dropping recently, by simply looking at your arousal level, as your eyes are on some porn sites that get you aroused.
Through this watch, your boss will be able to know whether you get too angry or sleepy while dealing with a customer. And the most terrible is your boss will get alerted by a message of any of your abnormal reaction.
Of course, the device will get great use at hospital or health center for physicians or nurses to monitor the emotional level of a patient. The watch is claimed to have 95% of overall accuracy against clinical ECG.
via [Gizmodo]
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