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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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  1. Nigel Callaghan

    Wrist movement?

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

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  2. David Lawrence
    Joke

    Given the choice.....

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

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  3. Nigel Brown
    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...........

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  4. 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.

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  5. frank ly
    Happy

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

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

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  6. 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.

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  7. AndrewH
    Big Brother

    Perhaps...

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

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  8. Anonymous Coward
    Flame

    And on a more serious note...

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

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    1. Oninoshiko
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      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)

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  9. Ball boy Silver badge
    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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