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MIT researchers have developed technology that can make your clothes even “smarter”.
The team has found a way to incorporate electronic sensors into stretchy fabrics, allowing them to create shirts or other garments that could be used to monitor vital signs such as temperature, respiration, & heart rate.
What’s more, such sensor-embedded garments will be machine washable, and can be customized to fit the person wearing them.
According to a post on the MIT Website, in the future, the team feels this kind of sensing can be used for monitoring people who are sick, either at home or in the hospital, as well as athletes or astronauts.
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