Device warns you if you’re boring or irritating

My wife says I need this new emotion device, developed at the MIT Media Lab, and featured in the NewScientist. Seriously:

A DEVICE that can pick up on people’s emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them.

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Dog Food Healthier Than Fast Food

I hope KFC doesn’t think I’m after them, because I really do love KFC. But the U.K.’s The Sun just released this stunning (sarcasm here) report on new research conducted by John Searle, a scientist from the Global food-testing lab in Burton upon Trent:

Tins of pet food are better for you than many fast food meals, boffins have discovered.

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Why focus groups do not work? Because they are AQUARIUMS

My friend Laurent Flores of CRMMetrix re-launched his “customer-listening” blog. His French humor definitely comes out in his latest post…

So why focus groups do not work as well as you think? Because they are "AQUARIUMS"…

Because they are not REAL…if consumers are looking for truth and human conversations…how can "faked" discussions with "trained" consumers or professional respondents can be real?

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