Underwear That Monitors Your Health

from the smart-clothes dept

Forget those little Life Alert "I've fallen and I can't get up" devices. Researchers are now working on sensors that can be sewn directly into clothing to monitor the health of the wearer. They even say that the sensors don't need to touch the skin and can catch something like someone having a heart attack and immediately alert someone via a mobile phone connection.
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  1. identicon
    dorpus, 9 Oct 2003 @ 9:56am

    Anachronistic cliches?

    So this means nurses just stick a tab on someone's shirt sleeve to get their diastolic/systolic readings? What happens to the old cartoon of the hospital patient who makes lewd comments at a nurse, so the nurse gets revenge by pumping the BP sleeve way too high?

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    George Carlin, 9 Oct 2003 @ 12:55pm

    No Subject Given

    The stains on your shorts can predict your future!

    link to this | view in thread ]


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