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Sensor To Monitor TV Watchers Demoed At Cable Labs
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."
How funny,
Someone above states emphatically that *no one* will accept this invasion of their privacy and is modded to +5 and here you are at +4 stating emphatically that everyone should *want* to have the very cornerstone of 1984 in our homes.
And if the "fat welfare whore" is worth more than the "anti-social venomous single white middle class maxed out credit card internet nerd" to the cable companies that they'll listen to her and not you via Nielson boxes why would that change if they put cameras into your TV? They have already told you clearly that you're not worth anything to them by not allowing you to get a Neilson box.
Perhaps you should get the message rather than chasing after them like a puppy who keeps getting booted in the ribs?
Not to mention it's pretty pathetic..."Oh if I let them stick cameras in my home then they might put on more SCI FI!"...perhaps you should get out more?