(Dagbladet): “Wearables” has long been a trend, that ingenious devices you can have on you, such as measuring heart rate, steps or notify you when you have received a message from someone.
The point is to make life easier. Last year announced such armband for example can tell whether you are long on Facebook. Now it is built on this foundation.
Intelligent Environments, which supplies software to British banks, has now created something they call Interact IoT platform that connects bracelet to your bank account, and lets you set a certain amount of that threshold. When you go over this, you will receive a shock from the bracelet.
It reports the online magazine Quartz.
This physical reminder to make it easier to control your spending, a bit like with Pavlov’s dogs.
Up to 340 volts should remind you that spending is a bad idea and get you to abstain.
And do you think shock is too roughly, they have other solutions.
For example, a violation of the border you’ve set cause the thermostat is turned down a few degrees, saving you back some money that way.
So far no banks agreed to use the solution, writes Quartz.
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