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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
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday October 18 2018, @03:13PM (3 children)
Exactly. The asshats that created these open office plans have their own offices with doors that close and are reasonably sound resistant. They are also the same people that have their phone off silent in the office and yammer away into their bluetooth headsets while walking around, interrupting others.
This thing is brought to you by the people that brought us the "war room" concept. Lets get a conference room and stick a dozen people or consultants in it during a major project. I was in one of those for about 2 weeks and while they were all people I liked, I wanted to murder them.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 3, Interesting) by c0lo on Thursday October 18 2018, @04:17PM (1 child)
From curiosity: what sauces would made you like them better?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Thursday October 18 2018, @08:16PM
Let us just say that using the quote "Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the war room!" never got unfunny.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 19 2018, @01:25AM
Dude, we need to talk.
I've been dragged into one of these.
Now I hate, actually hate, half the people.
It's horrible.