That Japan has been the vanguard of technological progress is a well established fact; that they come out with the weirdest and some might say ..um..kinkiest stuff is also a universally accepted perception (remember that virtual pet craze Tomogachi?).
Latest in this line of whacko products is Japanese lingerie brand Ravijour’s ’true love bra’; a bra that unhooks itself but only when the wearer is experiencing true love. Flummoxed? So were we. But his is how it works.
The ’true love’ bra monitored by a smartphone app.
The innerwear is equipped with a heart rate monitor that is synced with a smartphone app, which reads the wearer’s pulse and then automatically unclasps itself when the wearer’s heart beat reaches what is called the ’True Love Rate’. The heart rate monitor reads increases specifically caused by hormone levels which increase during romantic excitement.
And the manufacturer insists that the bra will not come undone every time you go for a jog or lug heavy weights, it is calibrated to judge the difference in heart beat over a few minutes, only then will it come undone (ostensibly to help you make up your mind?)
And it get’s weirder. According to Ravijour, the bra can help save women from unwanted sexual advances from undesirable men. An instructional video to this effect show women being hassled in a nightclub by a number of shady men, such as the money-flaunting ’Flash Guy’ and a Casanova called ’The Technician’.