<<A DEVICE that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed.

One of the problems facing people with autism is an inability to pick up on social cues>>
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025456.500

[Via Digg]

The thing I love about digg is seeing a story and having a nagging feeling you've seen it long ago. In this case, over a year ago – the article is from March of last year :)

http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Device_warns_you_if_you_re_boring_or_irritating

Equally amusing is all the people that complain about it though. Obviously enough people hadn't seen it before or found it interesting again or it wouldn't hit the frontpage once more.