Is this for real? Microsoft smart-bra might reshape battle of the bulge

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

LOS ANGELES — While Google and Samsung have been busy with smartglasses and smartwatches, respectively, Microsoft has been working on a wearable device that’s a little bit more intimate.

The company has developed a smart-bra that its researchers say is used to help prevent women from stress eating.

The device, detailed in a research paper, “Food and Mood: Just-in-Time Support for Emotional Eating,” features sensors to detect when women might want to eat because of stress.

The research gadget monitors heart rate, respiration, skin conductance and movement. The device sends the data to a synced smartphone app that attempts to stop users from eating when they feel stressed.

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[tridim]

1. I'm holding out for the smart underpants.

[warrior1]

3. Win

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. From further on in the article.

As for men, Microsoft tried a version of the device using underwear; predictably, it didn’t work as well.

“It was too far away (from the heart),” Czerwinski said

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[Blue Owl]

2. Microsoft has been busy with the Smartchest

n/t

[BlueToTheBone]

5. So Bill thinks Melinda is fat?

[beac]

6. So wait.... I am already upset and then my

underwear and phone are going to gang up and bully me about the chocolate bar I'm buying??

Not to mention that what is more stressful than having an expensive bra that needs constant updating, is prone to viruses, and has to be cleaned with compressed air???

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. I am sure you can get it in OS X

that will make at least the viruses go away, I kid, I kid of course.

[beac]

12. Is the world ready for iBoobs?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Is chapter one A, B, C or Triple D?

[JI7]

7. why is it only for women ?

[loli phabay]

8. theres probuably a bro on the research table as we speak.

[Orrex]

9. Now that's what I call tech support.

[Warren DeMontague]

11. I look at pictures of Bill Gates as a teen, he looks like he could be the go-to guy for computers.

Bras, not so much.

[BelgianMadCow]

14. Brilliant plan! And with the usual M$ backdoors built in, that would lead to..

men in dark suits coming to tell you you're in need of more support?