︎ORIGIN OF AI
Hi! I’m Katie Barnwell, and I’m a data scientist who loves exercise and hates feeling like my bra is a cage.
My obsession with the “bra problem” (a complex physics problem that society treats as an aesthetic problem) started at age 12 with my first sports bra. Already 4 years into my softball pitching career, I couldn’t believe how much the bra restricted my movement. Even then, I remember thinking, “this cannot be the best bra there is.”
My obsession with the “bra problem” (a complex physics problem that society treats as an aesthetic problem) started at age 12 with my first sports bra. Already 4 years into my softball pitching career, I couldn’t believe how much the bra restricted my movement. Even then, I remember thinking, “this cannot be the best bra there is.”
In high school, I divided my spare time between softball and the boatloads of homework for my honors math & science classes. As I grew older (and the math got harder), I learned that without daily exercise, my brain just couldn’t do its best work.
I started taking computer science at Brown, and since graduating in 2013, I’ve worked professionally as a data scientist. The discomfort of wearing a bra all day never stopped annoying me. While working at places like tumblr & eBay, I’d bring an extra bra and change at lunch, just for the tiny bit of relief I felt from the redistribution of my boob weight.
I couldn’t believe that even though I had a software engineer’s disposable income, the only way I could “throw money at the problem” was to get breast reduction SURGERY. But surgery seems really scary! Who wants knives near their most valuable stuff?
In 2019, when I realized the Cooper’s ligaments of my 30E boobs were on their last legs, I decided to pursue the bra problem full time. I filed my first patent that September, and my second just a year later in 2020. I have been dancing happily and refining the 3D printed AI bra since then.
I couldn’t believe that even though I had a software engineer’s disposable income, the only way I could “throw money at the problem” was to get breast reduction SURGERY. But surgery seems really scary! Who wants knives near their most valuable stuff?
In 2019, when I realized the Cooper’s ligaments of my 30E boobs were on their last legs, I decided to pursue the bra problem full time. I filed my first patent that September, and my second just a year later in 2020. I have been dancing happily and refining the 3D printed AI bra since then.
