This week, Microsoft researchers disclosed that they had developed a prototype bra to sense when women were overstressed, and thus susceptible to binge eating.
"It's mostly women who are emotional overeaters, and it turns out that a bra is perfect for measuring EKG (electrocardiogram)," said Mary Czerwinski, a cognitive psychologist and senior researcher in visualization and interaction at Microsoft, told Discovery News. "We tried to do the same thing for men's underwear but it was too far away (from the heart)."
By notifying an overstressed woman, the research goes, the lady in question could be advised to slow down, relax, and not reach for the chocolate.
Microsoft, to its credit, has been fairly open about its own research projects, disclosing everything from real-time translation services to computer-generated, virtual-touch smartphones, to interactive displays on everyday objects. Now, it's time to go inside the virtual vault of Microsoft's R&D facility and wonder what else it could be working on:
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