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a wearable device to understanding human networks

April 5, 2012 at 10:45 AM ET Thanks to the ruckus surrounding "Girls Around Me," we now know how easy it is for apps and other services to repackage our personal data for disturbingly creepy ends. The Girls Around Me might be the latest report to blow up in a big way over this issue, but it certainly hasn't been the first.

The suppression of feelings in the workplace in the hope of greater professional success, notes designer Jonas Loh, has led to unusually high rates of employee suicide; a particularly troubling statistic comes from France Télécom, where 23 employees ended their lives over the span of 18 months in 2008 and 2009. To counteract this stifling and dangerous social conundrum, Loh created the Amæ Apparatus, which makes a person's feelings explicit. Loh calls it an early-warning system for stressed-out people, soliciting sympathy and allowing assistance to be provided in a timely manner. Amæ, whose name comes from a subtle Japanese concept describing the desire for attention and care from a person of authority, is worn like a backpack and interprets the wearer's stress levels through a skin sensor; color-coded smoke erupts from a spout in a canister to alert coworkers to various emotional states.

T-shirts capables de mesurer le rythme cardiaque, vestes qui se gonflent d'air quand quelqu'un "aime" notre statut Facebook et autres robes "Twitter"… Et si la révolution numérique passait par le vêtement connecté, un marché émergent aux perspectives immenses ? Décryptage de cette nouvelle garde-robe 2.0.

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