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Techno Bra will alert Authorities
Wonko42 writes "This is really strange. A British inventor has apparently created a bra that monitors its wearer's heart rate and can tell when she is in danger. Using its built-in wireless phone, the techno-bra calls the police (or the wearer's boyfriend) and, using the built-in GPS locator, it relates the exact position of the wearer. Um...interesting....and there's more in the article. "
Unfortunately, I couldn't find any pictures of it, but I wonder how stylish it may be.
Maybe someone could hack this to modify it to make that call when wandering hands touch the goods....
Maybe it will stop all those "Natalie Portman, Topless" posts at segfault.org
So, er, how do you wash it?
Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
So what do you do when your bra crashes?
Lime
What kind of a hacker are you? You just put in a nipple-sensor. High heart rate, hard nipples, no call.
During the debugging phase, however, it was discovered that it would not adequately protect women in cold climates. The introduction of nipple-warmers to the design took care of that.
My, this story does lend itself to tittilating conversation!
As Paul Harvey would say, now you know.. the breast of the story.
I have a similar situation.
Attach to my black bra is a wearable computer.
There is room enough between the twins, where I can wear a sizable device.
Wanta see?
-Deb
I should think you'd instead use the more reputable Dewey, Cheatem, and Howe for this type of legal work.
If someone attacked a person wearing this bra, and it automatically called the cops, then the attacker would be BUSTed?
hehe...
Dave...
Ah, and it can inform the boyfriend or husband that she's having sex. Ah, another tool to enforce 'family values.'
You know, you put enough 'features' into the thing and it's going to need it's own diesel generator that wheels along on a cart behind it's wearer.
Remington? Are you sure you don't mean one of your Sex Pistols?
A lot of geeks get fat enough hunkering over the keyboard eating cheetos that the woman's version would work just fine.
I'm willing to be the sysadmin for these computers.
Make the same device for underwear, and make sex offenders wear it. When certain things get excited... it will phone the police, or even better sound an alarm.
Excuse me sir, it that an alarm in your... um nevermind, get away from here you freak!
Damn... she's cute!
Oh, and the bra looks like it would only look well without a shirt over it. Otherwise you may be mistaken for someone with some tumours or something.
Damn, could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things? Hope it runs Linux.
If anyone attempts to hurt me then I will by all means protect myself. If it means taking their life then so be it. It's THEIR choice, they are taking the risk here. I can't speak for you, but I would rather place a piece of lead into an attacker's head rather than be 6 feet underground or seriously injured in the hospital. The attacker's rights end (yes, this could even mean their right to live) when they attack you.
Actually the caption translates "Not a techno-bra, but still protects well" or something like that - so photos of the actual product remain elusive.
So why wear them? I'm not being mean or rude or anything... just ignorant. Is it more comfortable to wear a bra or not to wear one? With men the ultimate comfort is a good pair of sweats and a loose t-shirt and nothing else under neath. Actually, I read somewhere that it is harmful to men to where underwear unless they are of the boxer short style. I think I read it when I was doing some family planning. Anyway, I keep threatening everyone that if I ever form my own business or when I retire (which will be early since I have an incurable disease which is causing me to go blind) I will have an all t-shirt/sweatpant/sneakers wardrobe. My wife says that I'm crazy but why do we all wear things that we hate??? For someone else? Are we sure they are worth it???!!! I say make yourself at home and wear what feels best - for you women... get rid of the stockings, high heels, bras (maybe?), and whatever else makes you feel like a walking clothes rack!
When they have a problem, they can just call me up and I'll check into it first hand (and second one too). Hey, I'll even work nights and weekends. BTW - On-th-job training works best for me.
My question is based on the lesser of the two evils. Not ever having been a woman, I can't tell first hand - nor imagine - what kind of discomfort you women might experience without a bra. But I also am subject to seemingly countless comments about the discomforts of all these gadgets. Seems to be a no-win situation. Sure makes me glad I'm not female. Since my wife is like the vast majority of females in the US, she tells the same old line of how men should wear ties and slascks, women should wear stockings and high heels, etc. It doesn't make sence to me. I was hoping to gain insight as to what the main reason are that people subject themselves to such discomfort. I've always been an independant thinker. Guess I'm in a small crowd.
Uhh....or you could just practice. Put a bra around that big stuffed tux penguin of yours (i know you have one!) and try it!
Umm...they don't need a bra for this. My wife was having some arrhythmias about a year ago. She had to wear a portable monitor that she could activate when she felt like she was having an episode. It would record a minute of EKG, and then she would call in to a 1-800 # and play it back over the phone, where the company then sent the EKG to her doctor. It used the same 4 leads as most EKGs do (those things are STICKY). The pickup unit was small itself, about the size of a pager.
BTW, she was just overstressing...no significant abnormalities were spotted...
Why not? Lest you forget the musical condom from a quickie (ha!) earlier this year.
Like that cell phone in your purse (or wherever) is any different while it's turned on?
I thought one specific point was that they had made this thing flexible, and pretty thin. It wouldn't be like a lot of wires poking out, or a big pager-sized device shoved in somewhere.
In USA. In Europe, we don't have guns, so we have other ways to kill the debate
actually, if you want to be scared out of your
c pdnews.html
wits about being in berkeley, read this web
page, especially in peak crime season (Aug-Dec):
http://public-safety.berkeley.edu:4254/police/u
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/ 0,1518,29296,00.html
I am very happy to see the envelope being pushed in bra technology. It helps to solve the needs of people in their everyday life.
I feel it should be a matter of outmost importance to make bras geek friendly. Think about it, for years geeks have labored to make user interfaces easier on computers so any random person on the street can use one. After all, non-geeks don't put the hours in learning how to use computers, so simplicity is an important issue. On the other hand, geeks, such as myself, are met with anxiety and frustration when trying to figure out how to remove a bra from a willing partner in the dark, with no instructions or user manuals.
I don't know about you, but I'll admit that I don't get to spend a lot of time with girls, for the obvious geeky reasons I won't elaborate. Pathetic as I am, even lightning strikes once a while for me, only to be defeated by the bra clasp. After minutes of helpless fumbling, my partner gives an exasperated sigh and undoes it herself, spoling the mood just a tad. I'm sure I'm speaking for quite a few people here when I make the case for geek-friendly bra interfaces. It's only fair, after all. We geeks make computers easier to use for non-geeks, and society returns the favor by making bras easier for geeks to remove.
I have a proposal, and idea that I've been kicking around for some time. It's my idea, but if someone wants to build them I won't ask for any money, just the chance to see life improve for nerds everywhere. This is my gift to society.
So here's my idea: In many situations which a lot of things are happening and quick, decisive action is needed, the military and NASA have designed mechanisms which gets things open and accessable in milliseconds. I am talkling about the explosive bolt. When a pilot in a fighter jet is in trouble, he doesn't fumble with latches or clasps, he pulls an emergency lever or pushes a button, and BLAM, explosive bolts pop open the canopy and propel the ejection seat to saftey. Even back in the Mercury days, an astronaut in trouble thumbed a switch to blow the hatch for quick exit. You won't see a complicated network of hooks and loops or twist-offs securing the Space Shuttle hatch. You push a button, BLAM!, the door is blown off for quick egress.
In a swords-to-plowshares peace dividend, it's only natural to introduce this technology to female undergarments. In my new, hi tech bra, the front part will be the same as usual, providing important support functions vital to the comfort of women everywhere. The back strap, on the other hand, will have a few modifications in the name of progress.
The back strap will have an interface just like a pilot might see on a multi-million dollar jet plane. The strap, for saftey reasons, will be colored in black and yellow honeybee caution stripes. In big bold letters, the legend, "CAUTION: EXPLOSIVE BOLTS!" will be on the bra strap to warn people to stay clear. The switch will be underneath a cover, as well as the explosive bolts proper.
Perhaps the advantages of this new bra could be illustrated through a use case:
Scenario: User is necking on couch with eager, willing female participant. Clothes are scattered all over the floor, but her bra is still attached to her body.
User, realizing that the dim lighting conditions and relative inexperience prevents the opening of the clasp, decides to take advantage of the new explosive bolt technology on her bra.
Reaching around to her back, user finds the trigger cover. Flipping the cover triggers the siren and engages the red warning light. SFX: "Bar-ROOOP! Bar-ROOOP! Warning! Bar-ROOOP!"
The trigger, exposed, is pressed by the user. Immediately, the bolts fire and the bra is blown free, providing instant access to what it once covered. Due to the short time interval it took to remove the bra, no interruption took place and the romantic mood continues, unabated.
This is how I think a lot of problems could be solved in this world, second to actually meeting more girls.
Best regards-
Derrick
If there's no increase in heart-rate prior to intercourse, you're doing something wrong. Like, for instance,
necrophilia.
10. It monitors your heartrate and if you get excited it phones your boyfriend.
9. If you havn't got a boyfriend it phones a muscular policeman.
8. If the police are busy servicing other girls it phones an escortcompany.
7. You can set the dialtone to vibration.
6. The gel-like substance is really nice for sensitive nipples.
5. You can post comments on slashdot like this on slashdot by just connecting to laptop and fiddling with your beasts.
4. Using the GPS and a log function you can backtrack and find all your clothes from last night.
3. If your boyfriend is a geek, maybe this techno-bra will cause him to play less with his computers and more with your tits.
2. Gives a new meaning to the term "silicon valley".
1. You can get it for free if you are a long legged 36DD blonde and agree to provide advertisment space.
Posted by DonR:
"If Man had invested a tenth of what what he's invested into the female breast into the space program, we'd all be living on Mars by now"
I forget who said it, but it seems oddly appropriate.
---
Donald Roeber
I think we need a Godwin's Law Version 2.0: Any on-line debate, in whatever forum (usenet, slashdot, whatever), eventually turns into a debate about gun control, at which point all useful discussion is done and the thread is dead.
Don't label something "offtopic" unless you know the topic well enough to tell what's on topic.
I could easily see this being the "interactive chastity belt" of the future.
:)
Think about it, if I was a over-concerned father of a 14 year old these days... this would be a prime advantage to make my remington useful.
-Erik-
>When are we going to see some statistics on some real life tests, and when is the male model going to come out?
And do we call it the "Bro" or the "Manssiere"?
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
>...than the fact that the moment this thing gets onto the market, one of you lot will put Linux on it.
Well I do know that I'd love to see a Beowulf cluster of these...;-)
Ooh, a sarcasm detector. Oh, that's a real useful invention.
Ummm, wouldn't the EMF radiation/cancer risk outweigh the benefits of having a bra that notifies the police of when your heart stops? Also, I wonder how comfortable that would be? (Not that I'll ever find out firsthand. :) )
you know, something like this could be potentially more useful for detecting heart problems like heart attacks. it's been well established that heart related problems in women tend to get overlooked by doctors.
"For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and Long Words Bother Me"
It's a serious health risk if the bra calls her boyfriend when I remove it, just think about it...
Oh my...
/dev/strap...
I'm not sure whats worse, that Slashdot is turning to cheesy sex humor, or that I'm finding some of it so damn funny...
Could be nice though, if I had a daughter, she's get one, and I'd definately take away world and group access to
No really! Many men could use some kind of online help with getting bras off. How great would that be.
-- This and all my posts are in the public domain. I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer, and this is not legal advice.
Apparently the inventors have come up with a similar invention for men -- It's a pair of underpants that monitors your "heartbeat" to see when you get lucky. When you do, it immediately phones up 15 of your mates and brags to them about it.
rOD.
--
Rod Begbie done this, and he's not
... Can these be configured with Beowulf?
(Imagine that.. Geek paradise... Combine a mega rc5des cracker and an orgy...)
if I wanted to wear this AND carry a can of mace, who would stop me?
and, as a woman who lives in Berkeley much of the year, I would love one of these. it's not a deterrent, but a lot of people are surprised and mugged right outside my dorm, with police only a block away. this would be perfect for that.
Lea
more than a Wonderbra, I'm sure!
Lea
yes, but this can't be ANY worse than the Wonderbra.
:)
not to mention that when I'm in Berkeley, this would be something I would wear. At PARC, I'm not so worried about bein attacked (except by my robot
Lea
my parents read that
it's a good thing for me I'm over 18 and they can't yank me back home
Lea
If there was ever an example of a story that deserved its very own icon, this is it. What a sight it'd be, along all the KDE icons, internet icons, Tux icons etc, if there was a perfectly shaped pair of front bits right there alongside. :-p~~~
Yep, can't wait for the OpenSource version of that...
-Andrei
And "wear" do you mount the GPS antenna? 8^)
Stupid people will be persecuted to the fullest extent allowed by law.
Dude, the nipples go *soft* when orgasm arrives. They are hard before, and immediately after.
Check it out. You will see that I am right!
If tits were wings it'd be flying around.
Wonder if it'll go off in times of, say, great passion.
:)
The cops could end up bursting in on a lot of people having sex!
"Oh, I'm sorry, I've just had an orgasm..."
:)
Dodger
THIS would be good candidate for...you guessed it...a Beowulf cluster! *evil grin*
Nuff said. :-)
(Big grin)
That's exactly what I was thinking. I am not sure if the designer gave that any thought. But you can bet that the people who are backing did and are gonna use that (subtly mind you) in their marketing.
Yeah... Pictures would be nice!!! Do you ever wonder why the Internet has such a bad reputation...
...and the time will have come. And the name shall be known... The Kylrathi Viper Clan.
....than the fact that the moment this thing gets onto the market, one of you lot will put Linux on it. (Who said Linux doesn't offer good support?!)
Sorry, it's Facetious Friday here in Paris.
- Read fiction at www.espressostories.com
Would different cup sizes be regarded as forks in the code base, since they're not "user independent"? Would geeks get offended when women said the contents of these bras are proprietary? These are important issues. Perhaps the D cup distro would be from "Slackwear", Red Hat would become "Red Strap", FreeBSD would become "Three BreaSteD"...
It's STILL Facetious Friday here in Paris.
- Read fiction at www.espressostories.com
11. If your roommates come home unexpectedly and catch you dressed up in ladies' lingerie, you can tell them that your doctor prescribed it.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
What if the wearer is cheating on her boyfriend, heart rate increases, and alerts the authorities.
Hehe. I'm getting a buncha these for my partner.
I see that there is a relationship between danger and heart-rate. But how can you figure out if someone with a certain heart-rate is in actual danger ? High heart-rates can mean a number of things. I wouldn't like to have the police at my front door everytime I show my girlfriend how much I love her. Or would this rather work on the principle of heart-rate 0==not good. What if it's taken off then ?
Message on our company Intranet:
"You have a sticker in your private area"
beauty is only a light switch away
Try to come from behind her and take her boobs in your hands. GZZZZzzefse. AAAAAAAArgh. Sorry sweetheart i didn't knew you wanted to do that, are you ok?
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers." Bill Gates,
I don't see how one cedes ones right to defend oneself just by using this device. Is there something stopping you from using the techno-bra AND carrying a gun?
h e90s-feminist would be helpless (without the techno-bra) in that situation.
Secondly, I don't agree with you that the device is "old-fashioned and sexist": (A) As much as it may hurt your average feminist to admit it, women are on average physically weaker than men, and thus, on average, less capable of defending themselves against attackers. This does NOT imply that all men are stronger than all women, and it does not imply that women are thus incapable of defending themselves - but it does remain a fact that on average a women will have a harder time. (B) You are assuming that a woman will only ever be attacked when alone, and by a single male of perhaps average strength. I don't know about the US of A, but here in crime-rife South Africa, women are often attacked and raped/killed by entire gangs of men (often even when the woman is walking with her boyfriend; the gang just kills him too.) Even a super-ultra-bodybuilding-kungfu-fighting-womanoft
You also seem to indirectly imply that all women should carry guns, do body-building, and perhaps learn martial arts. Who says all women want to? Should they have to?
Well...I'm looking forward to seeing the cops bursting into a theater where an action or horror movie is shown, because someone weared this WonderBra.
Just ask Austin Powers about these smashing weapons. All's fair in love and war...
I recall seeing this in Wired and thinking that it's pretty ridiculous. The inventor is basically asking women to cede their right to protect themselves ('course, IIRC it's made in Britain; they've already ceded that right) and rely on a 'speedy' police response. Given that, at least in the US, the police do not have the responsibility to protect any one person (merely to do what they can, or something similar; this is a Good Thing(tm), since otherwise the families of murder victims could sue willy-nilly), this seems ill-founded at best and downright dangerous at worst.
Which would you rather have were you a woman (I imagine that a few of us on Slashdot are; maybe they could reply): a techno bra, with a 5-30 minute response time; a can of mace, which is often ineffective against a hopped-up attacker and is often used against the wielder (they are very close-range weapons, and are fairly easy to wrest from one's grasp; or a handgun, which is fairly effective (very rarely need to shoot; the gun itself is a deterrent) and not commonly used against the wielder (due to the long-range covering effect of a gun, an attacker has difficulty getting in close enough to take it)? Personally, I would prefer the gun. But then I wnjoy guns. I would think, though, that anyone would prefer the can of mace or pepper spray to the techno-bra. Even of they are not terribly effective (esp. in wind, such as is common here in Denver), they have to be more effective than an absent police officer.
I would guess, though, that the techno-bra has a single good purpose: it would still go off if the victim were surprised in some way (say a man approaches from behind and holds a knife--or a gun for that matter--to the throat or back). In that instance she cannot easily reach for a gun or can of spray. Even a personal alarm is not likely to be accessible. Still, the number of false alarms with this sort of thing would have to be tremendous.
In addition to that, it seems unlikely that a woman would want to wear one of these things every day. Who lives or works in that threatening of an environment? Maybe it's very common and I just don't know.
There is also the matter that it seems a bit old-fashioned and sexist: 'I'm just a poor helpless woman who cannot defend herself. Please save poor little ol' me you big strong policeman you!' I thought that we'd gotten past that as a society. Women are more than able enough to defend themselves; they don't need to rely on us men for that anymore. At least, not in cities and not with modern technology and versus crime.
I can hear it now - Go go gadget Titties!
Hey why not?
The ship sank. Get over it. (This sig was cut out from another's shirt and painstakingly hand-posted)
A late late late night movie flashed a clip of a big breasted belly dancer wearing an ornate bra. She bellied up to one patron and two fourty-fours fired from the nipples killing said patron dead. Is this the techno future of maidenhood will the iron maiden taken on a leathal cryto-neo-meaning?
"Academicians are more likely to share each other's toothbrush than each other's nomenclature."
Cohen
Seems to me that this whole idea is a pretty good example of people realsing a thing could be done and not paying too much attention to whether it actually makes sense.
There's been a lot of intelligent thought in the threads about this idea and the more people have engaged with the practicalities, the clearer it's been that it's just daft.
Satellite location on a personal, portable device - Yes.
Pulse detectors which alert to danger - Yes.
A bra which calls the police when the wearer becomes agitated or excited - For goodness sake.
Of course, what do I know? I find bras about at easy to deal with as Active X (I can feel a list of similarities coming on which I shan't bother sharing).
>1 word: scissors
Leatherman. The true tool of the Geek.
I think this is the ultimate in Ladies Geekwear.
;)
Does it run Linux?
Geeky modern art T-shirts
Really, that kind of excitement is quite a bit of a lower heart rate.
Besides, you'd have to last at least half an hour for that to occur, and that might be a miracle in and of itself.
;-)
Will in Seattle
Well, we'd certainly find out who was sneaking into R movies while underage, wouldn't we?
Of course, techie boyfriends would be a plus, since they'd learn how to disconnect the device, while dumb jocks would be the ones getting arrested. Provided the techies could get beyond exactly _what_ they were working on.
Will in Seattle
it must be good.
...
After all, Nicole Kidman thinks she's not that attractive, according to a number of interviews.
sigh
Will in Seattle
I'd love to help with the research, but I'm kind of distracted at the time that I could help with observing such reactions. Maybe if I got a WebCam ... NOT!
Will in Seattle
Really. Next time they won't just whoop our asses and burn the White House, they'll teach Al Gore how to become a comedian and George W. Bush what it means to serve in real combat.
...
Canadians - the true, the proud, the really nice guys to invite to your next party
Will in Seattle
ok, so I'm a dual citizen and a spy\\\former member of the Canadian Armed Forces
Will in Seattle
If we spent one percent of what we, as a nation, spend on pornography, we could cure all forms of cancer and terraform Mars.
Will in Seattle
Will in Seattle
Right?
...
Don't worry, if she has your jeans, she'll hack it so that you think she doesn't control it.
There are times like this that I don't envy my brother, who has twin girls
Will in Seattle
Will in Seattle
Sheesh, only in America would the "logical choice" be a gun.
And, in case you wondered, I've fired more automatic weapons than you ever will. And I still think it's a stupid choice - handguns are easy to use against the owner, but pepper spray will let you run and take him down so he can't.
Duh.
Will in Seattle
sheesh
Will in Seattle
A fool and his gun are soon parted. ....ed.
I went to see South Park and only
;-)
Will in Seattle
Oh, honey ... [ZAP] ...
... hmm, maybe if one is into S&M this might be considered a "feature", no?
Will in Seattle
You just have to know what you are doing.
And while I, personally, wouldn't really want to carry around a gun, I've often wished that my SCA dagger was street-legal (damn laws against double-edged knives in this state
Admittedly, I think that carrying around ANYthing without using your brains and staying alert to the world around you is a Bad Idea(tm). 'course, I used to drive my friends absolutely bonkers because I refused to wait for the escort cars at college. But the way I see that is this: I can stand around outside for 15 minutes and wait for the car to take me home, or I can walk home in the same 15 minutes. If I'm standing around waiting, the potential predator KNOWS I'm scared to walk home alone, and will use that against me. If I walk like I know where I'm going, it's that much less likely to be a problem. Admittedly, there is no perfect way to stay safe. But if something like the Techno-Bra gets more women to think they can go about their daily business without being afraid of the world around them (without thinking they don't have to be alert to potential problems), this is a good thing.
However, I can think of all kinds of ways the Techno-Bra could get abused. Like Daddy Dearest making his little girl wear this on dates, so if she gets um, "excited," it will call him
"Somebody exploded a letter-bomb today
Friend of a friend who knows the designer said the bit about phoning the police started as a joke! It was originally only meant as fitness aid...
When are we going to see some statistics on some real life tests, and when is the male model going to come out? (*laughin*)
;)
I guess it isnt too far fetched, I mean hey, whatever blows your skirt up, or bra for this matter
- "My name is Legion, for we are many" -Mark 5:9
So if someone ported linux to the bra could you unstrap it remotely? something about umount /dev/strap ? And what about talking to other bras? I think this fits in that wearable computer category. Then again it would be kind of embarassing to file a complaint that someone invaded your privacy by hacking into your bra because you left open ports that were not all the way secure. You wouldnt get much support ;)
- "My name is Legion, for we are many" -Mark 5:9
A British inventor ... of course it was British . Whose else could come up with something like that?
... Can you say chastity bra? Wasn't chastity belt a British invetion too?
The best thing about the gadget is that it can probably be set to alert at lower heartbeats, thus alerting husbands or father when the woman gets excited
--Flam (It was the French Joke Day yesterday.)
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers - Pablo Picasso
What's next, a condom that goes off during increased stress levels?
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Dear Anonymous Coward,
Your post, entitled 10 nice things about a GPS/cellphone in your bra ! is obviously a ripoff of my continuing bad gag entitled, Top X things... (Patent Pending), which has been featured in such quality publications as The Backyard Poster, Playgeek, and Good Postkeeping.
Unless you pull the post, issue a formal retraction, kiss my feet, and declare war on Canada for crimes against Guam, I shall be forced to pursue prompt legal action. My crack (smoking?) law team of Lye, Cheet, and Steel will be in touch shortly.
Sincerely,
Rim Rod III, Esquire
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Not wearable.
Rack mounted.
1 word: scissors
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
not enough.
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
What is to stop false alarms from happening like getting scared by a mouse or sending police on a wild goose chase from someone who has a weird sence of hummor. When you think about it what would stop someone from takeing a dozen or so of these bra, one for each cop, find some way to set them off without wearing them, place them all over some town out in the middle of nowhere and commit some crime like robbing a bank? Since the most or all of the cops will be following the false alarms the robbers will have a chance of getting away. Now note this is a theory, but whats to say it couldn't happen.
Also since they are thinking about makeing t-shirts with the same device that is in the bra and selling them as exercise monitor for people with heart problems. Would these shirts call the meds. if the person was having a heart attack or some other problem like that or would it simply tell the person wearing it there heart rate or what ever info. it gives.
The third and finale question I have is what would happen if the bra got wet, would it simply short out or would it electrocute the person wearing it? And who would be held responsible for it? (^_^)
When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to reform. --Mark Twain
Also, it seems nobody has considered the possible privacy issues. A bra that monitors your pulse rate and tells authorities exactly where you are? If authorities can intercept the signals, so can other people (stalkers, rapists, muggers, other undesirables). Would YOU want someone tracking your movement and pulse all the time? I wouldn't
Actually, if humankind would invest a tenth of what's been spent on the space program on breast cancer research, less people I know would be dying (or scared of dying).
Or women's health care in general for that matter.
-- Life is short. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. ~ Robert Doisneau
I saw this bra last week - it's part of a post-graduate design show at the Royal College of Art in London - the show finished last sunday unfortunately, but there has been some lurid coverage in the brit tabloids. It seems the orginal concept was something that would help older women who have fallen over or passed out or whatever, but being the RCA (which has a bit of a poncy reputation) the designer gave it a make-over and turned it all glam, high tech and expensive.
:P)
While I was there, she was modelling it for a TV channel, and yes she was cute and pretty, (but not as cute or pretty as me, with my long purple dreadlocks
Someone asked about how to wash it - the electronics are in a small button capsule in the middle of the front, and it's easily removeable for washing.
What else? It came in various nice colours - orange, deep purple, blue, in a kind of satin-y fabric (no-doubt deeply modern and space age gee-whizzy.)
I won't be buying one for myself, cos I'm a bloke and my tits aren't big enough, but my Japanese friendette adored it, mainly for the cool gear factor I suspect.