Overspending? I can think of 12 better reasons to give yourself an electric shock | Fay Schopen

Banks may like wristbands warning us we've spent too much. But I'd rather have one to stop me arguing on Twitter and saying yes to things

Technology is no longer one of life's benign helpers. I blame the Microsoft paperclip. He started it, with his incessant questions. Now we have an activity app on the Apple Watch that tells users to stand up if it thinks they have been sitting down for too long. Worse still is the proposed wearable tech invented by a British firm that could send bank customers an electric shock if they overspend.

While the latter sounds like a story from the Onion, (and wouldn't you just take the watch off when you felt a bit spendy?), let's consider for a moment some uses such irritating warnings may have:

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