The Pavlov Poke Gives You an Electric Shock If You Spend Too Much Time on Facebook
How many hours do you spend on the Internet a day? I think it’s safe to say that you’ve got a problem–or more like an addiction, really–if it’s more than half the total time you’re awake. Why spend your time cooped up indoors, looking at pictures of people doing all sorts of fun things that you could otherwise be doing? With this in mind, MIT PhD students Robert Morris and Dan McDuff came up with the Pavlov Poke. The name is misleading, though, because their contraption doesn’t just poke you. It actually gives you an electric shock if you&#…
