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When life Mimics Art - Updated

Well it would seem that life, well Jeff Bezos actually, is mimicking Art by launching "Halo" today! Halo is a fitness band and app that scans your body and voice and it makes a 3D model of your body and tracks the emotional tone in your voice.

From TheVerge:

Amazon is getting into the health gadget market with a new fitness band and subscription service called Halo. Unlike the Apple Watch or even most basic Fitbits, the Amazon Halo band doesn’t have a screen. The app that goes along with it comes with the usual set of fitness tracking features along with two innovative — and potentially troubling — ideas: using your camera to create 3D scans for body fat and listening for the emotion in your voice.

Halo, a health monitoring device, was actually introduced in the time traveling TV show, Continuum. (Season 3, episode 8)

This is a clip from the TV show where "Adam Saddler" introduces Halo to his board of directors of his new company Piron.
[Video:https://youtu.be/ZZayyJWuMA4]

Personally, I would NEVER EVER use such a device when no company on earth can protect our data, especially Amazon!

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Dang it, fuck NBC universal blocking my video, I had to submit a counterclaim of fair use as this was for discussion purposes and I don't monetize my RR channel on YT.

It's a health monitoring thing by Amazon, but what's interesting to me, this product by Amazon, Halo, was a health monitoring gadget "Halo" in the TV show continuum, years and years ago (2012), way before Amazon ever worked on the technology. So it's life mimicking art or stealing, however you want to spin it.

But even a little weird is the head of the fictitious company Piron in the TV show, before this Adam saddler guy I mentioned above, was guy who looks a bit like Jeff Bezeos. Bald headed, arrogant, uber rich etc...
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Here is the season 3 behind the scenes vid
[video:https://youtu.be/hP-5cl7lCjk]

The show was one of the better time travel shows. If you ever get a chance to watch the series I highly recommend it, if you're into scifi kind of stuff!

Continuum is a Canadian science fiction series created by Simon Barry and produced by Reunion Pictures, Boy Meets Girl Film Company, and Shaw Media.

"The series centers on the conflict between a group of terrorists from the year 2077 who time travel to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2012, and a police officer who unintentionally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the terrorist group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavors to stop them without revealing to everyone that she and the terrorists are from the future. The show premiered on Showcase on May 27, 2012, with ten episodes, and concluded after four seasons and forty-two episodes on October 9, 2015."

I really love the soundtrack music as well
[video:https://youtu.be/HaPSVgiTm-Q]

I think it's on one of these sites, Amazon prime, Netflix or Hulu. None of which I will subscribe to any more. I found a couple of p2p sites where I can just down load any show or movie I want, for free and no commercials. I have the entire 4 seasons on my hard drive. But you do have to know how to navigate the pop ads, lots of pop up ads... (DM me for links)

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laptop, asking myself if I was naive enough to believe it would help from photos of my face being taken without me realizing or knowing, and being frustrated, because if it would not help, I also would not know how disable the camera for good. Now I believe I have not understood the meaning of your first paragraph. He needs an up to understand my emotions. Poor fellow, how harder can I shout to say, Besoz is the worst person in the whole wide world. /s

Ok I am not sad, that the video is not available for the following reason.

This video contains content from NBC Universal, who has blocked it on copyright grounds

especially because I am no fiction loving person.

Good, I don't need to see what I have my prejudices about.

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when I sign up for that crap. I imagine a day when my food purchases are dictated by my body fat. Or my health insurance is priced accordingly.
And voice? How does that work with people who have suffered certain injuries or ailments in their vocal cords? Especially when they were too poor to get treatment and have some medical records? RR!

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