How're You Feeling? Ask Your Shirt
What would you do if your shirt could tell you if you were sad? Back in the '70s we had mood rings, which supposedly, by changing color, could tell whether you were nervous or anxious, or happy or mad. But now a company has put that technology into a shirt . According to a story at smartplanet.com, a Montreal-based smart apparel company OMsignal has developed a T-shirt and a bra that not only tracks your daily steps, calorie burn and heart rate, but it also measures your breathing and emotional well-being using your heart rate variability, or HRV," reported VentureBeat . Kirstin Korosec reports that OMsignal’s clothing contains a tool found in other fitness devices, which measures motion, steps and calories. "It also detects and measures two other signals: your ECG — the electrical signature of your heart — and respiration rhythms," she adds. Sensors woven into the polyester/lycra fabric act as the EKG, producing a read-out of cardiac activity when the user