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What one piece of technology would most improve your working life?
Chances are it wouldn't be a glove. But car workers in Germany are now using smart gloves that not only save time but prevent accidents as well.
It is an example of how tech-enhanced humans are fighting back against the seemingly unstoppable rise of the robots.
At BMW's spare parts plant in Dingolfing, for example, which employs around 17,500 people, hand-held barcode readers have been replaced by gloves that scan objects when you put your thumb and forefinger together. The data is sent wirelessly to a central computer.
The hi-tech gloves allow workers to keep hold of items with both hands while scanning more quickly. While this may only save a few seconds each time, BMW reckons it adds up to 4,000 work minutes, or 66 hours, a day.
It's not just gloves; the article gives several examples of cool technology that help workers.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Wednesday December 21 2016, @10:44PM
Actual teleportation will probably consist of sending plans for building objects from raw materials--reminiscent of 3-D printing, but with atom-by-atom control. Boring!
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If we could somehow teleport matter itself, sci-fi fashion, that could become a plentiful source of energy: just teleport hot matter from the Sun's interior to Earth and use it to boil water (Sun tea?). If we could teleport hot matter from the Sun's interior to wherever we pleased, it would be the non-polluting super-weapon we've all be wishing for. If we could teleport ourselves to the surface--or the interior--of a large black hole, that could offer exciting travel possibilities beyond teleportation itself: going to another universe, or to the past:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/science-vs-myth/everyday-myths/time-travel3.htm [howstuffworks.com]