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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
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Thursday October 18 2018, @07:51PM (1 child)
How many of them can actually say "You're fired!", or are most of them just "I'm disappointed, but can't do fuck all about it" types?
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday October 19 2018, @11:30AM
That's...a good question. Potentially none of them, depends on whether you mean fired as in "you are now unemployed" or fired as in "we're seeking new opportunities for you with a different client". Many of them could get me moved to a different team within the client company but that's probably about it. And AFAIK you pretty much don't get fired from the consulting firm unless you get escorted out of the building in handcuffs, and I'm pretty sure the people with the authority to make that decision are working in an office a few hundred miles away. That decision would have to go through HR, and I literally haven't seen an HR rep since I finished training five years ago. They're all out in New Jersey somewhere.