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Emotional eating is more common than you think. Some people sing their worries away, while others find that they’re calmer when they’re eating a cookie. Then a salad. Then a bowl of noodles. And so on and so forth.

Women aren’t the only ones who eat when they’re stressed, but men don’t really wear anything like a bra, do they? The reason why researchers from Microsoft, the University of Rochester and the University of Southampton, UK went with the bra is that it’s an article of clothing that rests over the heart, which allows it sensors to conveniently monitor its wearer’s heartbeat, and not because they had any thoughts on women being more emotional eaters than men.

The on-board sensors record the heartbeat and emotional state of its wearer. It hooks up with a smartphone app that uses the data gathered to determine whether its wearer is eating because of fluctuating emotions or not. If it’s the former, then it’ll send the user a message to let her know just that.

After it was put to the test, the bra was found to be 75% accurate when it came to predicting its wearer’s emotional state. Microsoft doesn’t have definitive plans to release this technology in a consumer product, but continues to research devices which react based on users’ moods, or so called “affective computing.”

[via Mashable via Dvice]

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Welcome to our coverage of all the best Black Friday deals. Deals are continuing to pour in, and this post will be constantly updated right up to the point when our Cyber Monday guide goes live. These deals are all subject to change and subject to price-matches (especially online price matches), and we can tell you that there are lots of deals still embargoed or not yet announced.

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Not to be outdone by Walmart, who recently announced that they’d be preemptively matching select competing Black Friday deals starting tomorrow, Amazon will be opening their vault of Black Friday discounts starting this Saturday the 23rd. New deals will become available as frequently as every 10 minutes, and will include everything from a $29 Chromecast to Grand Theft Auto V for $34, along with a slew of HDTV deals and the HTC One for a penny. [Amazon Press Release]

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No need to wait for Black Friday to get a deal on the best TV, Amazon has the Panasonic ST60 for only $1370. We occasionally see this set end up around this price, but it’s always from a far less reputable retailer. This is the television I just bought myself. We give it our strongest possible recommendation, and we don’t expect the deal to last too long. [Amazon]

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