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While I sit slouched in my computer chair typing this, I can’t help but wonder what it’d be like if I was wearing a shirt that kept my precious spine straight. The “Ergoskin” is almost that shirt. The device detects bad posture through sensors along the torso and prompts the wearer to correct their posture. So, while it doesn’t do the work for you, it does nag at you like a parent:
Someone who has been hunched over a computer for several minutes would begin to feel tiny pistons that “tap on the surface of the skin,” says the Ergoskin’s inventor, Talia Elena Radford Cryns, a graduate student of industrial design at Austria’s University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Of course, it’s up to the wearer to decide whether or not to fix his/her own posture.� It looks as though I’ll be waiting quite sometime before shirts that force the spine straight are made.
