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New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook
cartechboy writes "Two Ph.D. students from MIT have created a keyboard accessory, the Pavlov Poke, that shocks you every time you go onto Facebook. The project comes as a result of the students finding the waste over 50 hours a week combined on the social network (instead of working on their dissertations) So the pair created an Arduino-based keyboard hand-rest that shocks computer users who spend too much time checking the social network. The hack is 'intended to generate discussion' — not actually turn into a business." Inventor Robert Morris describes it as "something of a joke," but I'm sure there's a market out there.
The real market is for sado-masochists that are addicted to farmville (or is that redundant). If you just want to stop wasting your life, give up or moderate your FB (and slashdot) usage.
And I need a second one for my sister!
If telephones are outlawed, then only outlaws will have telephones.
Seriously, I only see this sort of thing being useful for a) folks who want to discipline themselves or b) sadistic overlords who think users need to not just be blocked, but punished for succumbing to their weaknesses.
In short, the target market is your average Megachurch.
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Thank Heavens this is for Facebook. I'd hate to see the burn marks on my hands from my Slashdot habit.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
...penis stuck to electrocuting device.
Silence is a state of mime.
It shocks me whenever I waste time on Slashdaaarrrrgh