"Designed to improve social interactions, especially for tens of thousands of people who suffer from a mild form of autism called Asberger's Syndrome, Finan's "Mood Phone'' would light up in a spectrum of color - from warm reds to cool blues - based on the verbal patterns of everyday speech received through the handset. Seen through the corner of the eye, the visual stimulus would help users interpret the mood and inflection communicated through the words and phrases they hear."It's not enough that they already govern our schedules, driving habits, manners, news and information intake, and pretty much the whole of our external existences. Now they want inside our minds!
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I wonder what the phone would do when interpreting a woman during her... ummm... "time..."
Am I a bad person for that one?
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