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Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs

Posted by kdawson on from the audience-has-reached-critical-mass dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cable operators at the semi-annual CableLab's Innovation Showcase have informally voted as best new product a gizmo that can determine how many people are watching a TV. Developed by Israeli company PrimeSense, the product lets digital devices see a 3-D view of the world (the images look like something from thermal imaging). In other words, that cable set-top box will know whether three people are sitting on the sofa watching TV and how many are adults vs. children. Do we really need cable and/or video service operators knowing this? It all happens via a chip that resides in a camera that plugs into the set-top box."

6 of 302 comments (clear)

  1. Porn that learns what you like. by BlueKitties · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, the inner exhibitionist in me is tingling.

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    "Sorrow is better than laughter, for by sadness of face the heart is made glad." [Ecclesiastes 7:3]
    1. Re:Porn that learns what you like. by Aggrav8d · · Score: 5, Funny

      *Inner* Exhibitionist?

  2. Somewhere... by blakedev · · Score: 5, Funny

    A midget is getting annoyed that the TV won't let him watch Real Sex 10.

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    QamuIs Heg qaq law' lorvIs yInqaq puS
  3. Re:Can it ... by raybob · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if it's equipped with a microscope

    ba-ding

  4. Oblig: by Cryacin · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Comcast America, TV watches you!

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    Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
  5. Oblig. Simpsons by Chess+Piece+Face · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kent Brockman: "Of course, there's no way to see into the Simpson home without some kind of infrared heat-sensitive camera. So, let's turn it on."