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posted by on Wednesday December 21 2016, @04:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the customers-who-aren't-idiots dept.

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BMW's spare parts plant in Dingolfing, for example, which employs around 17,500 people, hand-held barcode readers have been replaced by gloves that scan objects when you put your thumb and forefinger together.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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:17AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:17AM (#444533)

    It's nearly 2017, we've moved past GIFs. The proper form of animation is a looping video. Make your site an entire video and use JS to determine where the use clicks at what point in the video then generate the proper link and follow it to the next video.

  • (Score: 1) by butthurt on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:56AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Thursday December 22 2016, @12:56AM (#444547) Journal

    Are you certain it can't be interrupted or, worse yet, silenced? If it can't, you may have come up with the disruptive technology that will power Web 3.0!