I get a job for a department I've never visited before. I'm mostly access all areas so my card being rejected on the door tells me I'm in a specialist area. I explain I'm IT and get shown through to the right room by one of the staff there and I'm left to get on with it.
As I'm looking around I see one of those brainwave sensing hair nets. I know better than to touch anything but inside I am geeking tf out, giddy just being in the presence of tech I've only seen in Back To The Future and Ghostbusters. And what's this? An EM shielded room with a huge heavy metal door and frame? Soooooooo cooooooool!
Whatever it was I came to do I get done pretty quickly. But I notice the mouse cursor is shimmying and drifting to one side. I check the mouse, blow on it to clear anything that might be confusing the optics. Chase some cables, nothing fixes it.
It couldn't be, could it?
I don't quite go as far as closing my eyes and putting my fingertips to my temples like an X-Men character but I admit to staring at that brain mesh cap and thinking at it, REALLY HARD.
Nothing. I'm unworthy.
Eventually I find the real culprit. Some more wires pass through the wall into the EM shielded room where a second keyboard, mouse and monitor control the same PC. The mouse is resting on the keyboard in such a way the optics is hovering slightly above the flat surface of the table. Of course that's the problem.
But for a fleeting moment though, a fantasy came to life.