Sunday, October 7, 2007

"Quantifying Laughter" Technology

Technology is the Cutting Edge. There is no doubt about it, we are in the midst o fa revolution, as this item taken from the September 7th , 2007 edition of the Chicago Shimpo, the city's Japanese community paper .

Apparently this company has perfected to percentile accuracy the degree of your smile, as the screen shot below shows (that lady has a "100%" smile! On the other hand the fellow is only clocking in at a 32% smile - hmm, perhaps he woke up on the wrong side of bed?

Omron says that this device can "help take a picture of your best smile, and can also check your smile if you work in the service industry."

No sense leaving something this importance to your intuition nor experience folks, not when science has the numbers to back it all up!

One thing that strikes me as odd is that "laughing" and smiling" seem to be used synonymously here - but really is anything as benign as a smile behind every laugh, or vice versa? Laughing at your clients might not got you the commission nor the date you were hoping for...

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