Reading this story:

[Microsoft] has filed a patent application for a system which links workers to their computers via wireless sensors which measure their metabolism.

It would allow employees to remotely measure body temperature, heart rate, movement, facial expression and blood pressure.

“This particular patent application, in general, describes an innovation aimed at improving activity monitoring systems and uses the monitoring of user heart rate as an example of the kind of physical state that could be monitored to detect when users need assistance with their activities”

….I found myself wondering whether it was time Mr Clippy had a revamp…