E89- Prana, Artificial Skin, Bionic Bra | Red Headed Geek Show




Using intelligent components like actuators and sensors, a new bionic bra is able to automatically tighten or loosen depending on breast movement. So, if your'e going for a run, it will constrict for, you know, some good support; and if you are sitting in your car, the fibers will relax.

Pizza Hut's new eye tracking app has shown to not be so accurate in helping you choose your pizza toppings. What did they find out?You cannot use looking time to predict with any certainty what a person likes in a specific situation.

Did you know we already have working prosthetics that can be controlled by the users brain, muscles or nerves? The one thing the wearer still isn’t experiencing though, is sensation. Korean scientists are working on artificial skin for prosthetic hands that can sense humidity, pressure, pain, and itching. So if the person is drinking a cup of coffee, he or she could then feel how hot the cup is, be able to tell if the cup is about to fall right out of their grip.

Prana, is a clip on gagdet that cares about how much you’re slouching. We cant help but slouch, right? I mean were in a chair all day staring at a computer! That's the exact point of Prana, which uses different sensors to monitor not just our posture, but our breathing as well, which actually has more to do with whether we slouch than you may know.

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