Who among us hasn't gotten so
frustrated by one of our devices that we (drink or) curse,
threaten, and even physically abuse our beloved technology? (We even admit to having once chewed up our contact lenses
and spit them into the toilet). Well until someone starts up a local chapter of Gadget Abusers Anonymous, we'll have to
settle for systems like Christian Peter's, which uses both video facial recognition as well as biofeedback to tell your
gear that it may soon be in for some hurtin' and to change course accordingly (though exactly how it would do that is
unclear). Peter's emotion detector works by scanning a user's face for cues of anger or frustration (voice recognition
is also being incorporated to analyze tonal fluctuations or "stick this in your disc drive!"s) and
measuring his/her heartbeat, blood pressure, and skin temp via a tethered glove. The system will be on display at CeBIT
from March 9th through the 15th in Hanover, Germany, and we'll certainly rock a demo for y'all if we're lucky enough to
attend (please, AOL?).[Via Smart Mobs]