Tech of the Week: Darma Smart Cushion

Darma Smart Cushion

Back pain is one of the most commons health problems our modern society faces. Darma aims to fix that. Boasting features from monitoring you posture, sittings habits, stress level, and coaching you to sit better.
How bad is sitting? Studies have shown that the hours you sit is related to various cancers, heart conditions, metabolic conditions, depression, anxiety and depression.

“Good posture is the key to good health.”

 Possible Pros:

Improved health. A technology that could be a category killer for many other apps and devices (i.e. reminder timers, heart rate apps)

Possible Cons:

Price, good chance this is the only cushion you’ll pay $100+ for. Accuracy, will it really be able to measure your stress levels and heart rate variability? It’s still not completely clear.

Regardless they definitely have plenty of backers. Their Kickstarter campaign ended at $225,574, over 5 times their goal.

Early units are planned to go out from March – June 2015 with no word, as of yet, on public access.