The HAL 9000 for Your Wrist
By Rocky Thompson on February 14th, 2007
The Vivago is a personal wellness manager that stalks you like a CIA black helicopter crossed with an overanxious mother watching your diet. You leave the watch on all the time and it monitors your sleeping patterns, calorie consumption, and how much exercise you get. It’s supposed to be able to let you know when you’ll burnout and how you can manage your downtime for more energy. Finally, someone’s making watches to tell me when I’m tired and when I’m asleep.
Where can I buy one?
The watch on your wrist now, the chip in your neck tomorrow. From there, it’s a short hop to your HMO, or Allah forbid, the government insisting on a data feed from the chip, so they can ‘help’ you live a better life– especially the poor proletariat that doesn’t take good care of themselves anyway.
But not me! I’ll be off the Rez by then, wearing my tinfoil pyjamas!