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A Shopping-Scanner Darkly
An anonymous reader writes "Using functional MRI scans, researchers have found which parts of the brain are active when people consider buying something and can predict whether or not they'll ultimately bite. One of the main findings was that rather than weighing a choice between the pleasure of making a purchase and the delayed gratification of using the dough for something else, the brain is actually weighing between the pleasure of buying and the pain of forking over the cash."
It is really going to be hard to fit the MRI machine in the line at the supermarket.
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Clearly becomes impervious to pain when she takes my credit card and goes shopping for shoes.
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First Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? and now A Shopping-Scanner Darkly? Next article we'll undoubtedly be called Flow My Oily Tears, the Android Said.
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Can we? Can we?
I've stated for years that when writing out checks for bills and such that it "physically pains me" to do so.
I'll have to show this article to my significant other as scientific proof that I'm not just being dramatic when I say that.
Not only that, you're going to zap every credit and debit card within an appreciable radius and I'm thinking you'll know pretty quickly if the guy in line next to you has a pacemaker or any other metallic implants.
OTOH, a lot of jewelry and loose change is going to fly to the center of the machine when you fire it up in the checkout line, so that may offset your costs somewhat.
What if the Hokey Pokey really is what it's all about?
First Do Electric Sheep Dream of Civil Rights? and now A Shopping-Scanner Darkly? Next article we'll undoubtedly be called Flow My Oily Tears, the Android Said.
Hmm, why not BladeRIAAnner?
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shouldn't they perhaps focus a little less on the actual putting of items in baskets, and suchlike, and a little more focus on the actual forking over of cash?
Yeah, Home Depot's got that one nailed with their "self-checkout" debacle. They make you focus on the forking-over-of-cash so hard that it makes you want to leave your pile of crap at the register and go shop somewhere else.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
No, the best way would be to have half naked women sidle up to you and tell you they will go home with you only if you buy something expensive.
I, for one, would welcome our half naked female overlords.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!