Posted on 02/01/2018 12:37:06 PM PST by ransomnote
Amazon patents wristband that tracks warehouse workers' movements Bracelet, which can vibrate to point an employee’s hand in the right direction, would further increase surveillance of work environment
Olivia Solon in San Francisco
@oliviasolon Email Wed 31 Jan 2018 19.30 EST Last modified on Thu 1 Feb 2018 13.11 EST View more sharing options Shares 7,723 Workers pack and ship customer orders at an Amazon fulfillment center in Romeoville, Illinois. Amazon has patented designs for a wristband that can precisely track where warehouse employees are placing their hands and use vibrations to nudge them in a different direction.
The concept, which aims to streamline the fulfilment of orders, adds another layer of surveillance to an already challenging working environment.
When someone orders a product from Amazon, the details are transmitted to the handheld computers that all warehouse staff carry. Upon receiving the order details, the worker must rush to retrieve the product from one of many inventory bins on shelves, pack it into a delivery box and move on to the next assignment.
The proposed wristbands would use ultrasonic tracking to identify the precise location of a worker’s hands as they retrieve items. One of the patents outlines a haptic feedback system that would vibrate against the wearer’s skin to point their hand in the right direction.
The result? Human workers can fulfil more orders – until robots develop the dexterity to replace them altogether.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Turning them into a robot?
Slaves had more freedom than this...plus free healthcare!
don’t see how it is much different than using surveillance cameras. you go to work, do your job
Yeah, I really want to work for an outfit that watches my every movement, and where my hands are every moment.
If I want Jeff Bezos to know how often I scratch my butt, I’ll send him an email.
Isn’t that part of what the Star Trek communicators did? They are patenting a 50 year old public domain idea?
We choose our slavery. We carry our slave chains called phones, we wire our houses with slave chains called smart appliances, we place slave chains in our homes to listen to us. Our cars are tracking us and continues our slavery, every street and corner videos us and continues our slavery.
We are already slaves.
This is just a logical conclusion to the other slave items we permit.
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Wristbands will come off too easily so the upgrade will be an implant...you could even include a potassium chloride overdose in the event someone turns out to be politically unreliable.
Pretty much.
Yes. It’s creepy. I recall Japan has had high levels of monitoring employees every moment they are on the job site via cameras everywhere (well, not rest rooms!) for around 20 years now. And that there’s the creepy company that had employees all get a chip injected into their hands to track them everywhere. Hoo yeah. Big Brother-itus, it’s catching!
TSA photographs the populace essential “nude” in airports, wrist bands track employees motions at work. It sounds more and more like we are a monitored herd of livestock. I think Maxine Waters was the one who bragged that Obama had created (his admin) a database with specific information on every American at a level of detail never seen before in history. So that’s your cell phone info, contacts in your cell phone, your IP information (remember Obama collecting information on every INTERNET user? I was some formal “act” phrased to “protect” people), email addresses (like Google requires phone contact to start account) crossed together with everything else about individuals and now they will have wrist bands for employees - how long before that info was added to the mix had Hillary been crowned “Queen”. “All your privacy belong to us!”
There is a company in which the chip was injected in their hand. They all smiled like clones on camera and insisted hat there was zero objection to the chip and each employee was grinning hard saying it was great! Talk about talking points!
Should have a voice that says, "You're getting warmer, warmer, warmer, waaaarmer... ooh, colder, colder..."
Surveillance cameras require watching (humans) and do not automatically generate statics on how many times that day your right hand moved 20% farther to the left than necessary, therefore wasting time.
LOL!!
To be truly cynical you could have the people even pay for it by calling it an upgrade and bundling it to their security system.
For that reason I don't carry a laptop. Most of my work is either at home or at the office. I have a smartphone, but minus a lot of the bells & whistles.
Harvey Weinstein would have put those on his employees.
“A man chooses, a slave obeys.” - Andrew Ryan
Big brother’s mov’in ever faster...
See -
www.ID2020.Org - UN lead universal citizen biometric ID initiative backed by Microsoft, Deloitte, IBM and others
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09/15/2015 Exec Order initiating gov’t lead massive interagency Behavioral Health database on All citizens
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