Called the Ergoskin, the device detects bad posture through sensors along the torso and prompts the wearer to correct it.
Someone who has been hunched over a computer for several minutes wouldbegin to feel tiny pistons that "tap on the surface of the skin," saysthe Ergoskin's inventor, Talia Elena Radford Cryns, a graduate studentof industrial design at Austria's University of Applied Arts Vienna.The biofeedback doesn't hurt and is imperceptible to others, accordingto Cryns. The device can be calibrated to a wearer's ideal posture asdetermined by a physiotherapist.
Source: washingtonpost.comAdded: 13 June 2008