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TECH TALK
YOGA WEAR THAT CORRECTS
YOUR POSTURE
Adapting the right posture is key to a good yoga
session. However, holding on to that position for
too long without any assistance can be tricky.
That’s where Nadi X Smart Yoga Pants plan to
perfect your postures, making your yoga time
blissful. The fitness gear by this brand has built-in
haptic feedback or vibrations. The pants have
accelerometers and vibrating motors woven into
the fabric, around the hips, knees, and ankles,
which vibrate to give you instructions on how
to move.
Along with clothing, you can use the Nadi
X mobile application. The app further breaks
down your yoga poses step by step, with
correspondence to vibrations received directly
from the pants. The app collects and analyses
data from your workout session to summarise
your goals, performance, and progression.
COLOUR YOUR CLOTHES JUST AS
YOU PLEASE
Buying a wardrobe full of garments and ending
up wearing a few can fill you with guilt. Then
there are occasions when you wear something
to a party or an event and might end up feeling
underdressed or overdressed. You can now
reduce your stress by investing in colour- and
pattern-changing clothes. Too hard to believe?
But it’s true. The College of Optics and Photonics
at the University of Central Florida has announced
the first user-controlled, colour-changing fabric,
which enables the wearer to change its colour
using their smartphone. This fabric, termed as the
ChroMorphous fabric, incorporates within itself
a thin metal microwire. A current flows through
YOU CAN NOW REDUCE
YOUR STRESS BY
INVESTING IN COLOUR-
CHANGING CLOTHES.
these wires each time you externally signal
your garment to change colour. The moment
this happens, the threads’ temperature alters
slightly. This subsequently triggers the pigments
embedded in the thread that respond to changing
temperatures, thereby changing the colour of
the garment.
CLOTHES THAT CAN FETCH MEDICAL
VITALS OF THE WEARER
Fitness watches are passé now, as OMsignal has
created activewear, workwear, and sleepwear that
collects a bundle of medical-grade data from the
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