A team of engineers can make a Fitbit fitness bracelet detect when a Netflix viewer wearing the gadget is falling asleep and pause the video playback accordingly. The software – written by the streaming service's Sam Homer, Rachel Nordman, Ariene Aficial, Sam Park and Bogdan Ciuca – allows a customer watching Netflix on a …

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Saturday 1st March 2014 18:12 GMT Anonymous Coward

The Samsung S4 has a pause if you look away feature. Its fucking annoying.

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1. Saturday 1st March 2014 21:40 GMT ecofeco
  
  Beat me to it.
  
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2. Sunday 2nd March 2014 21:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Well there's a difference between looking away (listening to the audio of video) and falling asleep :)
  
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3. Monday 3rd March 2014 07:24 GMT KjetilS
  
  It can be disabled :)
  
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  1. Monday 3rd March 2014 08:03 GMT Anonymous Coward
    
    It sure is disabled. Now. But is on by default. We were testing video and couldn't understand what the problem was.
    
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Monday 3rd March 2014 09:09 GMT JDX

Actually quite a useful idea this. Having to figure out where you got to is annoying.

Although waking me up would be a better option so I can go to bed rather than sleep on the sofa.

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1. Monday 3rd March 2014 15:54 GMT BongoJoe
  
  This is why I have the telly in the bedroom. The downside is the cluster of empty wine bottles found under the bed.
  
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Monday 3rd March 2014 17:33 GMT Anonymous Coward

How about enabling fitbit sleep detection period?

As it is now, you have to push a button to tell the stupid thing you're going to sleep (as well as when you've started to exercise).

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