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Japanese phone boasts killer slacker-sensing app

Japanese phone co KDDI has been telling the BBC that its latest phones can sense when an employee is slacking off. The phone can tell when a cleaner is scrubbing, or carrying out any rapid thrusting movements with the right hand. The information comes from detailed analysis of accelerometer data, gathered wirelessly from the …

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Wrist movement?

And can it differentiate between rapid scrubbing and other rapid, repeated wrist movements?

Joke

Given the choice.....

...I'd prefer to have one off the wrist, thank you (of course I mean my mobile phone - what else?)

Paris Hilton

It's all in the wrist action...

...and some of the, erm, onanists I'm forced to work with would have no trouble keeping their wrists moving for 8 hours a day!

Paris, cos, well, come on...........

Anonymous Coward
WTF?

Can I have one for my Boss's wrist

So I can prove what I already know.

PS Got a slackberry anyway so I don't need one.

Happy

Let the predictable jokes begin.......

...oh, .....they already have.

Anonymous Coward
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Easy to fix that ...

Just tie the phone to your belt on a piece of elastic and let that sucker register every little move like you're hard at it (ahem!). Pay rise for sure.

Big Brother

Perhaps...

they could consider offering it in an electro-shock collar format to increase corporate and industrial uptake..

Anonymous Coward
Flame

And on a more serious note...

...are those who develop stuff like this actually PROUD of themselves?

Boffin

it beats....

patenting math^wsoftware.

makeing single-player games require an internet connection

squirting brestmilk at the arresting officer because they arrested you because you where drunk enough to think that it would be a good idea to be squ....

(better break out the hasmat suit, we are talking bioweapons now)

Pint

Fantastic! I have a market for my vibrating watch-winder!

For every action, there's an equal and opposite reaction!

/the one with Newton's /Mathematical Principles/ in the pocket

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