Wearable Sensors to further inslave Japanese factory workers
Living in Japan sometimes is like living in a campy science fiction program–In this case “Thrall Collars” for Japanese factory slaves….
Wearable Sensors Help Analyze Behaviors of Factory Workers
July 3, 2009 – Nikkei Tech-On! – DSS Co Ltd, a Japanese firm that edits and processes digital maps based on survey data, started a service of recording the actions of factory workers for long hours and visualize them.
The tools used for collecting the data are (1) the “ankle sensor” to be attached to the leg of a worker for recording his or her movement, (2) the “milestone,” which will be installed in various places in the plant to know how long workers stay there and (3) the “small video camera” to be put in the chest pocket of the worker to record his or her action. …more…
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July 4th, 2009 at 6:50 pm
I’m sure J-sweatshop owners will soon have them fitted out to deliver shocks when appropriate; managers at Canon, for example, could give their coolies a zap every time they tried to sit down.
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-add Toyota’s awesome new brain-wave interface and you’ve got the perfect system to apply a little external stimulus for when your coolie starts having subversive thoughts, like how great a union might be, or what an asshole their yakuza dispach company manager is.