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No, not the annoying TV series but rather the omnipresent entity that influenced its creators and all thanks to Hitachi. The odd squad over there have come up with a surveillance system designed to keep tabs on wayward office workers.



According to reports from the Orient, the system uses a combination of chair-based sensors, wireless nametags and a base station connected to the boss's computer. As soon as you move off your chair the name tag kicks into operation and beams updates about your location to the boss every thirty seconds. So, the top brass will be well aware if spending too long in the loo or the canteen and you can forget the crafty fag break you have at 3.15pm too.



What's next? Static zappers to shock you back to your desk or a portable print out telling you how much your ten-minute toilet break's just taken from your wage packet? Good grief.