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Amazon Patents A Wristband That Can Track Workers' Movement

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

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

[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: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @04:51AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @04:51AM (#631887)

    I prefer Go Fuck Yourself [youtube.com]

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by aristarchus on Friday February 02 2018, @05:49AM (2 children)

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday February 02 2018, @05:49AM (#631904) Journal

    There was this Greek Country-Western singer (we have both kinds!) name Johnny Paycheck, and he had this song, which was titled, Take This Job and Shove It! [youtube.com]

    What happened to left-wing populist Country-Western Music? We could use some Johnny Paycheck, and less Runaway1954.

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday February 02 2018, @10:15AM (1 child)

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 02 2018, @10:15AM (#631937) Journal

      What happened to left-wing populist Country-Western Music? We could use some Johnny Paycheck, and less Runaway1954.

      You could also use some hard cash instead of just a paycheck, the results are the same [youtube.com]

      I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down,
      Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town,
      I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime,
      But is there because he's a victim of the times.

      --
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford

  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 02 2018, @08:51AM (#631922)

    I guess that's one good way to catch the guy leaving the spooge in the company restroom...