NOBEL PRIZE ALERT
This is a video demonstration of a phone cradle spotted at a restaurant in China that swings your phone and tricks it into registering those swings as steps, apparently so patrons who work for companies that offer healthy insurance discounts for walking a certain amount of steps per day (typically 10,000 -- roughly 8km/5-miles, or about an hour and forty minutes of walking) can meet their quota "while dining, drinking, and smoking."
(Thanks to John Lobert)
Next will be an app that tricks your heart into thinking it's still beating. That'll teach 'em...
Posted by: Stixnstonz | May 24, 2018 at 02:32 PM
They should make some kind of cheap miniature gizmo with a mechanical swing switch that would count steps as you walk. They could call it a "pedometer."
Posted by: wanderer2575 | May 24, 2018 at 02:43 PM
Boss: "How many steps are we up to today, Jim?"
Jim: [Wakes up] "Huh?"
Boss: "How many steps today?"
Jim: "Oh, uh 8,356 and counting, sir."
Posted by: ChrisinVa | May 24, 2018 at 03:08 PM
There are already aps to hep you pretend you're working.
Posted by: Clankie | May 24, 2018 at 03:18 PM
"Dude, your fitness profile shows you can do 1,480 backflips in a row! Awesome!!!"
Posted by: fractalist | May 24, 2018 at 03:27 PM
"Verrrrry sneaky." Artie Johnson in a helmet fades into the bushes.
Posted by: Nancy Bee | May 24, 2018 at 05:11 PM
"You know, Lin, this guy's fitness record shows his heart was so healthy he must have run a marathon a week. Well, help me get him on the gurney."
Posted by: Le Petomane | May 24, 2018 at 05:50 PM