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posted by Fnord666 on Friday February 02 2018, @03:06AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-creepy-at-all dept.

[Amazon] has patented designs for a wristband that would track where its workers put their hands in relation to inventory bins and give "haptic feedback" to signal if they have the right bin to retrieve an item or not. The patent documents were first spotted by GeekWire.

The "ultrasonic bracelet", supposed to be a time- and labour-saving device, would work by periodically emitting ultrasonic sound pulses to a receiver, tracking which bin a worker is reaching for and monitoring how efficiently they fulfill orders. The wristband would also send and receive radio transmissions, pinning a worker's location and giving a burst of "haptic feedback", a vibration similar to those found in phones or game controllers, which would tell the employee if they're reaching for the right bin or not.

The approach would eliminate the need for extra time-consuming acts, "such as pushing a button associated with the inventory bin or scanning a barcode associated with the inventory bin," one patent's description reads.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by linkdude64 on Friday February 02 2018, @03:50AM (7 children)

    by linkdude64 (5482) on Friday February 02 2018, @03:50AM (#631858)

    1984 was a story conceived with the technology available in Orwell's time.

    A new magnum opus is waiting to be written.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Friday February 02 2018, @04:51AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 02 2018, @04:51AM (#631888) Journal

    A new magnum opus is waiting to be written.

    Manna [marshallbrain.com]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by canopic jug on Friday February 02 2018, @05:28AM

    by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 02 2018, @05:28AM (#631898) Journal

    1984 was a story conceived with the technology available in Orwell's time.

    It seems that the oligarchs have also borrowed heavily from the movie THX-1138 lately too. Originally 1984, Brave New World, and other dystoptian novels were used in school classes for discussion to try to avoid future problems. I think that has backfired and that most of the kids instead took those stories to heart as templates. I'm worried what happens when all those "Game of Thrones" watchers eventually raise their kids. We already have a mess in society from decades of "reality" TV where the weak and or untalented have been systematically trained to gather in packs and collude to tear down anyone seen as talented or strong or both.

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  • (Score: 2) by captain normal on Friday February 02 2018, @06:35AM (3 children)

    by captain normal (2205) on Friday February 02 2018, @06:35AM (#631909)

    If we are going to get into Kafkaesque movies, I rather prefer "Brazil".
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film) [wikipedia.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @09:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @09:30AM (#631928)

    Cyborg slaves. Now with Rectium™ inside.