Mimicking Monitor: New Computer Screens That Convey Body Language

Because the future isn't unsettling enough...this is a new technology aimed at making your cyber session video chats seem a bit more personable. Basically the monitor gestures in a way that mimics the person on the other side of the screen. You shrug you shoulders, and then their monitor shrugs its shoulders. If the person you're talking to laughs, then your monitor spasms like a dying android. I suspect Japan had something to do with this, but don't they always...

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Standford University via Researchers mod computer to copycat human motions [CNET]