For our midterm we came up with multiple ideas. We whittled them down to one. Our idea was that we would create robots that could enter a persons musculature and constantly make micro tears in the muscles to increase muscle mass steadily without the need to work out. From this idea we came up with the idea of muscles that glowed when they were used. Which became our final idea. We would make two things. An impact crème which would light up when agitated by impact. Our second is more like the original idea. Another crème would be applied to the skin and a scanner, kind of like an EKG would read the electromagnetic fields created by muscle contraction and would cause the crème to glow. The color of the glow would be determined by intensity. For the first crème the intensity of the impact would decide the color. Stronger impacts would lead to a color of a smaller wavelength on the EM scale and vice versa. For the second intensity of muscle usage determines the color on the EM scale. For the first crème the color determination is to give the artistic crème a scientific side. For the second it does two things. It makes the crème more artistic and it allows someone to see how hard a muscle is being worked. This would be useful for personal trainers and for coaches in order to see how well someone is doing an exercise or training technique.
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