Microsoft's New Smart Bra Could Stop You From Over Eating

walterbyrd writes "A team of engineers at Microsoft Research have developed a high-tech bra that's intended to monitor women's stress levels and dissuade them from emotional over-eating. The undergarment has sensors that track the user's heart rate, respiration, skin conductance and movement — all of which can indicate the type of stressful emotions that lead to over-eating, according to Microsoft researchers. The data is sent to a smartphone app, which then alerts users about their mood."

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Re:The blue tits of death.

[Anonymous Coward]

What's surprising is that nobody here thinks this is an inherently sexist device.

It's not really that surprising when you think about it.

Men don't like fat chicks. Chicks don't like fat chicks. Fat chicks don't like being fat. Fat guys on the other hand don't care too much until the point at which they can't see their penis, and even then, most people around them don't care either. Why? Because society holds women up to the pedestal of beauty - not men. This has been the case for eons - there's a reason why supermodels are always women.

Is that sexist? That would imply that the whole of society is sexist. I think at this point though the only people who'd complain are those women who don't shave their armpits/pubes and wonder why no-one wants to fuck them.