EmoteMail to banish smileys for good

Tired of using smileys in email? Good, we're certainly tired of seeing them. Fortunately for all of us there's a new way to convey emotion over email without resorting to such childish ploys. EmoteMail uses facial expressions, captured via webcam and typing speed as part of the message to help the recipient get a sense of the mood. Each paragraph gets
"annotated" with a facial expression and a background color that changes depending on how much time was spent on that particular paragraph in relation to the others. So if you keep a poker face, type at a consistent speed and don't edit your emails, you're out of luck. But for everyone else, this could be a decent way to give people a better clue if that insult you just hurled at them was in jest or if you really do hate them.

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