We're all just looking for a little genuine human connection in this increasingly digital world. Some of us,This Isn't The Twilight Saga: New Moon: The XXX Parody however, have slightlymore interesting ways of finding it than others.
Take, for example, Kevin Raposo. On Aug. 24, the technology writer thought he'd have a little fun and post an activation link for his electric shock-delivering bracelet to Twitter. A bracelet, it is important to add, that he was wearing around his right wrist.
SEE ALSO: Herman Miller unveils a cloud-connected desk because that's the world we live inAnyone who wanted to could hit a button and deliver Raposo a zap, so of course he implored the internet to have at him.
You can guess what happened next.
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That's right, people began shocking him. Like, a lot.
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"The thing was going off consistently for like 20 mins," Raposo explained over email. "So much, in fact, the battery died. The Pavlok app says I was zapped about 755 times today. That's all in the span of 20 mins."
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Despite what it may look like, the device itself was not designed to make the barbs of Twitter trolls physical. Instead, according to the company's website, the Pavlok wristband is intended to help both train the wearer out of bad habits and shape good ones.
"Other wearables track," explains the site. "Pavlok gets you focused on your goals. It's like sorcery for your lizard brain making you more aware."
We reached out to Pavlok to determine what they think of Raposo's brand of sorcery, only to discover that the CEO is surprisingly chill about the entire thing. "I think the public experiment is very cool, and we LOVE the ability to 'touch' across the internet — including vibration patterns, sound, and zap," Maneesh Sethi wrote over email. "Of course, it's all configurable to what you want."
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As for Raposo, well, we're not sure if getting zapped repeatedly was exactly what he wanted out of this experiment, but he definitely learned something.
"Anyways, this whole experience taught me people like to inflict pain on others, especially when it's done remotely from a keyboard, but in a good way," he mused. "But hey, I asked for it."
This story has been updated to include comments from Pavlok CEO Maneesh Sethi.
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