Darma, a smart health connected cushion for better sitting

A smart health connected cushion that analyzes your posture, your habits, your stress level and teaches you how to sit better.

An application that wants to be useful for its posture

Beyond simple information on how to sit, the iPhone and Android application learn from our habits to better coach us. To this end, it is proposed advice on how to stand and stretching lessons which we can consult via our smartphone or our computer.When you've been slumped for too long, Darma will let you know via message and promptly remind you how to tarnish properly, extend your spine and work out the right muscles. He will also remind us that he is time for a short break coffee to stretch our legs.

Each person sitting differently, Darma analyzes and adapt his advice in the place of our body that she presumes painful according to our bad habits: the neck, the back or even the hips.

Darma is recommended for all workers behind a desk, those who know they are not well, those who have back problems and want to keep their health. For Dr. Joan VERNIKOS, former director of life sciences at NASA, “Darma is a non-intrusive sensor unlike many smart health connected health monitors. By sitting on Darma, he captures the information in the most relevant position: seated. ”A smart health connected cushion that also serves for stress

The name Darma comes from Bodhidharma, father of Zen and meditation since its goal is tobring wisdom to each of our sitting breaks.

To this end, this smart health connected cushion has a one millimeter thick sensor. Coupled with fiber optic sensors developed over five years of research. It makes it possible to measure a large number of data: the breathing, the Heart beats, the stress level, the most suitable posture.By detecting our heart rate and our breathing, it can thus determine if we become too stressed and then suggests relaxation and concentration training exercises. It will be delivered from June 2015 priced at 189 dollars either 150 euros.

With an average of 9.3 hours spent sitting per day, 13 parts of our body affected by this position and eight out of ten people who suffer from back problems, Darma doesn't seem like a bad idea. Are we really going to take the time to look at and follow the advice given, that's another story … A seat that adapts its shape to force us to sit properly would undoubtedly be more effective!

On the other hand, he could invade speed-dating salons to find out if love at first sight is there or if there is flatulence.

source: kickstarter.com

[ad_2]