| If you thought that every possible invention under | | | | the first place. |
| the sun has been thought of, think again. A chap | | | | The device hasn't reached the shops at the time |
| in the West Midlands, UK has made an item of | | | | of writing, but McGlone is seeking financial support |
| clothing that tells you when you have bad posture. | | | | to make the "Posture Perfect"garment available |
| An electric leotard containing lots of sensors | | | | to the masses. |
| continuously monitors the wearer's posture and | | | | Now, although I can't fault McGlone on his |
| set off an audible beep if you adopt an unhealthy | | | | entrepreneurial spirit, I can't help but ask if Mother |
| slouch. | | | | Nature hadn't already thought of this posture |
| Inventor Chris McGlone thinks that the device | | | | alerting and built it in to the human body. It would |
| could have a big impact on the nation's poor | | | | make sense that something so important to the |
| posture problem. In the UK, bad backs are have | | | | existence of the human species be very firmly in |
| reached epidemic proportions and are the most | | | | place after 50 million years of evolution. |
| common reason for absence at work. Every | | | | All infants have a natural resistance to sitting in |
| year, 105 million sick days cost the British | | | | chairs which are arguably the main cause of poor |
| economy £8.3 billion - so I would say | | | | posture. When children start school the teacher |
| there's definitely a big need for posture correction. | | | | spends a lot of the time training them to sit still in |
| A gas engineer from Walsall, McGlone said that he | | | | the seats. Over time each pupil must learn to |
| designed the invention after years of suffering | | | | override their built in bad-posture alarm in order to |
| from rounded shoulders. He reasoned that if | | | | work at their desk. The poorly designed school |
| someone had reminded him every time his | | | | furniture makes rounding the shoulders and |
| posture was bad, it wouldn't have deteriorated in | | | | hunching their backs inevitable. |