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That sounds creepy. I’m not one for probing. Thankfully there’s no need for any Matrix-style needles prodding your grey matter. All you need is a wrist-worn wearable designed to measure your emotions, which are then fed back to compatible games. The Ankkoro is one such device. It’s got a built-in heart-rate sensor and a galvanic skin sensor that detects your sweat levels based on the conductivity of your skin. Of course, sweating buckets and an increased heart rate are symptoms of both love and terror, so there’s a clever algorithm involved to detect which emotional state a player is in. Clever, yes. But real? I doubt it. The Ankkoro isn’t ready for mainstream release, so we understand your caution. But the sensors are all there, and we’re told that several years of research with a cognitive neuroscience lab took place to help develop it. Obviously, clever tech is nothing without the software to support it, so we’ll have to wait and see if game developers jump on board too. As for us? We’re keeping our fingers crossed for a survival horror game in which the monsters can hear the sound of your frantic heart beating away, and then slowly crawl towards you…