Bionic woman: MotivePro suit

This has potential.

A vibrating suit could be the key to ensuring Britain’s athletes perform with inch-perfect precision at this summer’s Olympics.

tiny sensors attached to the wearer’s skin trigger motors to tell them when they move in the correct way.

A computer tracks the user’s movements in real time and the results can be monitored by a coach as Olympic hopefuls practice. …

British Olympic rhythmic gymnast Mimi Cesar, 17, is using the technology to polish her routines.

… ‘The suit will be especially useful in group gymnastics because you get points for synchronisation and how you all look together so it will help gymnasts do the routines exactly the same.

‘If all five of them wore the suits they would know exactly where to place their back or body …

Read more on the Daily Mail – Giving Olympic athletes a buzz: New electric training suit vibrates to tell medal hopefuls when they have perfected a routine

(via @gymnewstics)

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