Video Games: A Video Game Console System that Measures Your Emotions?
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- Published on Monday, 01 April 2013 16:40
Toshiba's Shibasphere
It's April 1, 2013 when the tech companies as well as others unveil spoofs, pranks and other means of trickery to get you to believe what you know is not true. All in jest and fun, of course. However, what the tech companies may or may not know is that you are ahead of the game because you know on April Fool's Day to always expect the unexpected.
Or are you really ahead of the game? What if a well renowned company announced that there is a video game console being unveiled that will be able to measure your emotions when you play a video game. With the technological advances of the 21st century, could there really be such a machine/system that you can not only connect to video-game-play wise -- but one that can connect to you on an individual, emotional, personal level?
Toshiba Shibasphere
Enter Toshiba's Shibasphere. In addition to other "innovative" features, the Shibasphere has a local agression monitoring mode. The spoof video game console can measure your level of aggression and automatically tone or calm things down if your emotional intensity level begins to get out of control. This monitoring would undoubtedly adjust depending on the type video game you are playing.
Even though this console is a April Fool's Day hoax/joke -- to some this hoax may be obvious not only because of the seemingly impossibility of a video game system to have the ability to measure emotions. Even more telling is the Toshiba Shibasphere would have created skepticism because it would have been introduced to the public without all the secrets, reveals, press conferences, leaks and other publicity techniques of the marketeers, etc. of the new systems used by those before it -- Xbox 720, PlayStation 4, and the Ouija -- just to name a few. Would Toshiba give a first look at a video game console system, including all its specifications at a first introduction? As a reminder, you are probably still waiting to see the actual Playstation 4, in spite of all the hype, press confererences, etc. for this system. Need I say more?
Happy April Fool's Day.