My Advent Calendar - Day One "Wearing your heart on your sleeve"

Due to technical issues I've had to postpone the start of December until today but still - here's day 1 of  my advent calendar! Every day in December I'll be posting something from a short did you know fact to a full blog post.

Day One #SciSparksAdvent

Sometimes, us as humans can't read emotions particularly well. Scientists think help is now on the way! A team at Daejon in South Korea have developed a sensor that can be built into clothing, it detects fluctuations in electrical capacitance - the idea being that it changes the size of the goose bumps triggered by the wearers emotions. Scientists hope that that the material may eventually be used to monitor the wearers emotional states