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posted by martyb on Thursday October 18 2018, @10:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the none-so-blind-as-he-who-would-not-see dept.

There's nothing dystopian at all about these high-tech blinkers for humans

Ever feel like you're having too much fun in the office? Like your boss just isn't getting enough value out of your life? Fear not: Panasonic has designed a pair of high-tech blinkers* that block out your peripheral vision to help you concentrate on the job at hand.

The concept is called Wear Space, which consists of a lightweight, wraparound fabric screen that conceals a pair of Bluetooth headphones. The screen cuts your horizontal field of view by around 60 percent, while the headphones come with a built-in noise-canceling feature that can pipe in music of your choice. It charges over USB and has a battery life of 20 hours.

The Wear Space isn't an official Panasonic product (yet), but a prototype was developed by the company's Future of Life design studio. An early version was shown at SXSW earlier this year, but the creators of the Wear Space are now raising money for the device on Japanese crowdfunding site GreenFunding.

[...] *Also known as blinders. The metaphor we're going for here is the equipment used to restrict a horse's vision, so we're using the correct terminology, as recommended by the Kentucky Derby.

See also: Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @12:16PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 18 2018, @12:16PM (#750405)

    We have a guy who just openly falls asleep at his desk.
    Nothing stops employees from sleeping, reading the news, or just goofing off at work. Open plan offices are a lot of crock.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by TheFool on Thursday October 18 2018, @02:55PM (1 child)

    by TheFool (7105) on Thursday October 18 2018, @02:55PM (#750472)

    Nothing stops them from reading SoylentNews, either. Get back to work, folks!

    • (Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Friday October 19 2018, @09:09AM

      by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Friday October 19 2018, @09:09AM (#750834) Homepage

      Those days are long-gone for me. I tried to go to nationalinterest.org and got the "political advocacy catagory (what the military industrial complex considers to be "Infowars-tier") -- click continue and your actions will be logged" message. Then I remembered somebody else here previously posted that they got that message trying to go here.

      Ahh, makes me yearn for the good ol' days, when I was boning Pinche Lupita, making 14 bucks an hour, and posting the word "nigger" on Slashdot at least 3 times a day from work.