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Divine the secrets to the ultimate mystery: Do they like you?
She’s just not that into you.
How often have you heard those words? We’ve all heard them at one time or another. And we’ve all said them to someone else in our lives.
It’s not easy, is it? Of course it’s not. It’s not easy for any of us. But what if there were a better way?
N2U is a revolutionary technology that allows us to help you discover who is available, and who isn’t, and how interested they really are. N2U takes basic metrics available across a variety of well-known and proven platforms, including but not limited to:
• Pupil dilation
• Galvanic skin response
• Alpha/beta sine wave changes
• Skin temperature
• Siccadic eye movement
• Habitual data usage
• Biological data profiles
• Available social media avatars
• Networked possessions
• Networked appliances
With data gleaned from all these available sources, it’s possible for us divine the secrets to the ultimate mystery: how one person feels about another. How many times have you been in this situation?
You spot an attractive person across a crowded room. Your eyes meet. You both smile. But neither of you can move. If you move, the spell might be broken. You might say the wrong thing. You might do the wrong thing. And worse, what if this person isn’t truly interested—what if this is a harmless glance, and you’re misreading the signal? Do you really want to be That Person? Of course you don’t.
Enter N2U. With N2U, you can instantly assess someone’s interest. Not sure if she’s staring at your face, or that mustard stain on your shirt? Now you know. Worried that she’s just being polite? Now you know. And if she’s N2U? You’ll be happy to find out for sure.
But N2U doesn’t end there. If you keep N2U going for the duration of your relationship, the system will learn your habits, your tics, your needs and desires, what turns you on, and what sets you off. And as N2U learns and adapts to your relationship, it can tell you and your partner where you’re going wrong. Even better, N2U can be extended to include other partners: with our Premium subscription plan, there is no limit to the number of people you can add to your N2U group!
Now you have no excuse for not knowing that your words hurt someone: with our revolutionary heads-up display and branded N2U smartsuits, you’ll know instantly what kind of impact your words have. If you add haptic responses to your N2U subscription, you’ll get a hug or a gut-punch with each remark you make. Wonder if she’s feeling the frisson of unresolved sexual tension that you are? Now you’ll know!
We’re not pretending that relationships are easy. We know they’re work. But we can make them easier. We can help you start the tough conversation. And we can help you feel the love. With N2U, you’ll be more present, more vital, and more aware within your own relationship.
So. Are you into it?
FUTURE NOW—When Everything is Media
In this second volume of Future Now, IFTF's print magazine, we explore the future of communications. In our research process, we traced historical technology shifts through the present and focused on the question, “what is beyond social media?”
Think of Future Now as a book of provocations; it reflects the curiosity and diversity of futures thinking across IFTF and our network of collaborators. It contains expert interviews, profiles and analyses of what today’s technologies tell us about the next decade, as well as comics and science fiction stories that help us imagine what 2026 (and beyond) might look and feel like.
For More Information
For more information on IFTF's Future 50 Partnership and Tech Futures Lab, contact:
Sean Ness | [email protected] | 650.233.9517