[ransomnote]

more at link

[Scrambler Bob]

Turning them into a robot?

[Cowboy Bob]

Slaves had more freedom than this...plus free healthcare!

[InvisibleChurch]

don’t see how it is much different than using surveillance cameras. you go to work, do your job

[LegendHasIt]

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.

[Dutch Boy]

Isn’t that part of what the Star Trek communicators did? They are patenting a 50 year old public domain idea?

[eldoradude]

We need legislation to require everyone except the 'elite' to wear one so we can be safer. It's for the children!

/s

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.

[Hatteras]

"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."

Should have a voice that says, "You're getting warmer, warmer, warmer, waaaarmer... ooh, colder, colder..."

[BenLurkin]

vibrate to point an employee’s hand in the right direction,

Harvey Weinstein would have put those on his employees.

[yuleeyahoo]

“A man chooses, a slave obeys.” - Andrew Ryan

[Chickensoup]

interesting most likely patterning the workers movements and decisions to program AI computers to do this work.

[PAR35]

If the nudge doesn’t improve performance, the voltage will be increased on a logarithmic scale until a result is achieved.