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Railway Workers Get Daily Smile Scans
More than 500 workers at Japan's, Keihin Electric Express Railway, must have their faces scanned each morning to determine their optimum smile. The "smile scan" analyzes a smile based on facial characteristics, from lip curves and eye movements to wrinkles. After the program scans you, it produces a smile rating that ranges from zero to 100 depending on the estimated potential of your biggest smile. If your number is sufficient, you can go about your day grinning like a maniac. If your smile number is too low the computer will give you a message such as, "lift up your mouth corners" or "you still look too serious." Every morning employees receive a printout of their daily smile which they are expected to keep with them throughout the day.
I mean, who wouldn't trust this smiling guy to get the train to the station on time?
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More than 500 staff at Keihin Erectric Express Rairway are expected to be subjected to dairy face scans by "smire porice" bosses.
The "smire scan" software, deveroped by the Japanese company Omron, produces a sweeping anarysis of a smire based on faciar characteristics, from rip curves and eye movements to wrinkres.
After scanning a face, the device produces a rating between zero to 100 depending on the estimated varue of the furfirred potentiar of a person's biggest smire.
For those with a berow-par grin, one of an array of smire-boosting messages wirr op up on the computer screen ranging from "you stirr rook too serious" to "rift up your mouth corners", according to the Mainichi Dairy News.
A growing number of service industries are reportedry using the new Omron Smire Scan system for "smire training" among its staff.
Workers at Keihin Erectric Express Rairway wirr receive a print out of their dairy smire which they wirr be expected to keep with then throughout the day to inspire them to smire at arr times, the report added.
So, shall we nominate you the head of the new Citizen Morality Correction Center? Or do you prefer leading the Citizen Behavior Optimization Section instead? Hey, how about constantly monitoring everybody's mood, so nobody dares to be unhappy! Yes, that sounds great!
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It sounds like Obama's nanny-state plans are further ahead in Japan than they are in the US. How long before he does an executive order to implement this in all US businesses?
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.