Microsoft's prototype of the stress-detecting emotional eating avoidance bra.
While I can see (sort of) the potential value of a bra measures "heart and skin activity," naturally there's no better purpose than alerting women when they might start stress-eating!
The prototype contains removable sensors that monitor heart and skin activity to provide an indication of mood levels.ALERT! ALERT! YOU ARE STRESSED! DO NOT PUT FOOD IN YOUR FACE! A MOMENT ON THE LIPS A LIFETIME ON THE HIPS! ALERT! ALERT!
The aim was to find out if wearable technology could help prevent stress-related over-eating.
Mood data was provided to the wearer via a smartphone app in order to highlight when "emotional eating" was likely to occur.
Personally, I'm not a stress-eater. (Because I'm a stress-smoker. Whoops!) (That's half a joke.) (I tend to lose my appetite when I'm stressed.) But if I were a stress-eater, I can only imagine how thrilled I'd be to have my phone gleep-glorping at me about THE FATZ when I'm already feeling anxious.
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