New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook

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Two Ph.D. students from MIT have created a keyboard accessory, the Pavlov Poke (http://www.robertrmorris.org/pavlovpoke), that shocks you every time you go onto Facebook. (http://www.informationweek.com/social-business/social_networking_consumer/facebook-addiction-a-shocking-cure/240160230) The project comes as a result of the students finding the waste over 50 hours a week combined (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57599980-71/too-much-time-on-facebook-give-yourself-an-electric-shock/) on the social network (instead of working on their dissertations) So the pair created an Arduino-based keyboard hand-rest that shocks computer users who spend too much time checking the social network. The hack is 'intended to generate discussion' — not actually turn into a business."Inventor Robert Morris describes it as "something of a joke," but I'm sure there's a market out there.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/08/27/1641236/new-keyboard-accessory-shocks-users-when-they-try-to-go-on-facebook