That Beeping Leotard
Posted by admin on Dec 2, 2008
With so many different posture correction products on the market you’d be forgiven for thinking that every conceivable solution has been thought of. However, 57 year old inventor Chris McGlone has come up with a novel solution to posture correction that let’s you know when you have adopted a ‘bad posture’.
The garment has been specially designed to monitor the posture of the wearer, using lots of small sensors. If the user slumps at her desk for too long, then the leotard will make a beep sound to say, “OI! That ain’t good for you!”.
McGlone came up with the idea having suffered from rounded shoulders most of his life. He thought to himself, that if he had been reminded not to round his shoulders when ever he did so, he would not have ended up with his bad habit.
Whether this posture correction gadget will cure the millions of back pain sufferers remains to be seen. The product named, “Posture Perfect”, needs financial backing before it can be made available to offer posture correction to the masses.
I have seen a couple of other products that work to remind the wearer – One is called ‘Back Tone’ I think. I believe is also beeps when you start to slouch. The other is quite different. It is a stick on elastic support which resists movement into bad postures and assists the wearer to return to the upright position. They are called posturepals – http://www.posturepals.com. They got good feedback on ‘The New Inventors’ on ABC TV in Australia.