Microsoft Bra Release Date, Features & Update: Device Soon to Be Manufactured? Can Detect Stress Eating?

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Researchers from Microsoft have come up with a different kind of bra that offers mood detection features to help prevent women from stress eating.

L.A. Times reports that the device, more intimate than the smart watch or glasses, was discussed in a research paper called Food and Mood: Just-in-Time Support for Emotional Eating. The so-called smart bra is made with numerous sensors for detecting the mood of women each time they want to consume food out of being stressed.

The device is capable of monitoring heart rate and even movement, among others. It sends off the data needed to an app that is synced in a smart phone that will help stop the users from stress eating. According to Microsoft research manager, Mary Czerwinski, it is the women who are deemed to be the "emotional eaters."

The main purpose of the creation of the smart bra is to discover the effectiveness of wearable technology that continues to be a rising trend in modern gadgets. The sensors embedded in the high tech bra include an electro dermal sensor plus the electrocardiogram along with an accelerometer and the gyroscope.

Aside from the Microsoft bra, BBC UK also noted several other brassiere-inspired inventions over the recent years. According to the report, it was just last month when a bra connected to Twitter made news. Thee device reminds women to self-examine their breasts whenever they unclasp it.

Last year, a U.S. firm came up with another wearable device that can analyze breast heat to help in the early detection of cancer. On the other hand, to lessen the rape cases happening in India, engineering students made a bra that has an electric circuit and sensors that activate each time someone tries to attack or grab the woman's body.

If there's one problem with the Microsoft bra, this is the tedious characteristic of removing and recharging batteries every three to four hours, Mashable wrote. There have been no released plans yet for the high tech bra to be offered for sale to the public.