Flowtime: wearable electronics for yoga

flowtime is an interactive system that introduces people to yoga practice in an entertaining way. It consists of a videogame and a vest that measures your breath and your movements. By giving feedback on the screen, with verbal comments, and with vibration motors on your back, you learn to synchronize your breath and movement. In the end, this can give you benefits of yoga such as relaxation, emotional support or even a meditative state of consciousness.

Flowtime thereby contributes to a vision where interactive, highly dynamic technology progressively recedes into the background of awareness through skilled embodied interaction until we lose conscious directed attention and become one with the nothingness of being. This, in my eyes, is crucial for attaining a sublime, invulnerable and independent form happiness.

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