e-diocy, unLtd.

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

Social psychologist Philip Zimbardo once commented that if one person is
having delusions we call it mental disorder and lock that person up in an
institution, but if a group of persons is having the same delusions we call
it a point of view and protect it with constitutional amendments.
Information technology moves that process to a different level - making
money out of one's mental disorder.

Compulsive-obsessive disorder, whose behavioral manifestations include,
inter alia, compulsive counting of everything such as trees along the road
or one's steps, is becoming a market niche for electronic products.  A
recent ad from www.tigerdirect.com introduces "sportbrain - wireless
personal technology for tracking health and fitness."  In plain English,
the "sportbrain" is a counter attached to a person's belt that counts that
person's steps and transmits this information to a webpage where it is
graphically displayd and compared to the number of steps from the previous
days.

Sounds too crazy to be true?  Visit www.tigerdirect.com and look for item
#S775-1000 or S775-1002.

wojtek