Popular lingerie brand, Victoria's Secret, is now
selling a heart-rate monitor compatible sports
bra that houses the required sensors within the
fabric. "Incredible by Victoria's Secret Heart-rate Monitor
Compatible Sport Bra" is priced between $72.50 - $75.50,While all the heart-rate monitor compatible
sensors are built into the fabric, users will
additionally need a heart-rate monitoring device
to check the data collected. The listing specifies
compatibility with 'leading brands' of monitors,
but nothing further. No belt is required, reports Wearable Tech Insider. Notably, the company behind the technology,
named Clothing+, is the same company that has
been behind sports tech from the likes of Adidas and Under Armour. Earlier this year, during the CES, wearable tech was the hottest things on display. It witnessed
the Sensoria Fitness bra, T-shirt and socks, which
can connect to a smartphone and is designed for
runners and others who want to monitor their
health and improve workouts. Similarly, last year, Microsoft had also designed a 'smart bra', which featured removable sensors
that monitor heart and skin activity, and inferred
whether the wearer is feeling stress. The
ostensible purpose of the 'bra sensing system' is
to help prevent stress-related overeating. Designed by a team from Microsoft's visualisation and interaction research group, along with
researchers at the University of Rochester and
University of Southampton, the smart bra
features a GRASP (Generic Remote Access
Sensing Platform) board that is powered by a
Lithium-Ion battery, and can sample up to eight bio-signals. Four sensors have been bundled on
the bra, and linked to the GRASP board - an
electrocardiogram (EKG) sensor, an
electrodermal activity sensor (EDA) for measuring
skin conductance, and two movement sensors, a
3-axis accelerometer and 2-axis gyroscope.

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