Comments on: Concsience pricker

Concsience pricker

marvin — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:28:35 -0800

WiFi-SM is "a Wi-Fi-capable patch you stick on your body so you can feel painful shocks whenever news stories are published containing keywords that you enter into the software". (via Mikes List) Who needs this when we have MetaFilter?...

By: dg

dg — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:36:34 -0800

Now we just need to make wearing one compulsory for all MeFi users and set it to stun them if they try to post anything about politics.

By: namespan

namespan — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:46:24 -0800

What's the German word for world pain again? Weldheimertz? Weldschmartz? Ach! I can't remember.

By: punishinglemur

punishinglemur — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:47:23 -0800

I'd buy it.

By: inksyndicate

inksyndicate — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:47:35 -0800

That beats the pants off Google News Alerts. It reminds me of the Empathy Box from "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep."

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:53:40 -0800

"HMMM, I think mother will let me have a dog....."

By: clavdivs

clavdivs — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:56:35 -0800

"....or at least a gerbal"

By: Satapher

Satapher — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 18:16:44 -0800

you know, if they really made these, they could just fake it by having the device in constant shock mode. theres always pain in the world!

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:22:11 -0800

namespan: weltschmerz

By: dhartung

dhartung — Wed, 08 Oct 2003 20:47:08 -0800

Watch my schadenfreude.

By: mmoncur

mmoncur — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 02:06:31 -0800

Maybe this explains the twinge of pain I feel whenever the keyword "Microsoft" appears in the news.

By: i_cola

i_cola — Thu, 09 Oct 2003 02:53:24 -0800

I'd watch your schadenfreudian slip closer...