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The other day I read about Google’s “Mail Goggles” feature. In a nutshell, it’s a program that attempts to prevent Gmail users from sending messages when they’ve been drinking. How? By answered a few math problems in a short period of time.
Jon Perlow, a Gmail engineer, writes, “By default, Mail Goggles is only active late night on the weekend as that is the time you're most likely to need it. Once enabled, you can adjust when it's active in the General settings.”
I honestly thought it was a joke - that in a day or two, that card Perlow would write a new entry entitled “Gotcha!” and we’d all have a good laugh about how we were fooled into believing that Google Labs would put out such a ridiculous feature.
I mean, what’s next, cell phones with breathalyzers? Digital cameras that refuse to photograph kittens, animals in costumes and other twee images?
Pity the math-challenged people (that would be me) who just can’t solve math problems quickly.
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