Smart Shirts Monitor Vital Signs
From: Dr. Dobbs Journal - October, 2000 - page 18

The Smart Shirt, developed by SensaTex and Georgia Tech Research is a T-shirt
with optical and conductive fibers woven into the fabric. When wearing the
shirt, it can monitor your vital functions, such as heart rate, respiration,
temperature, and blood pressure. The Smart Shirt project started in 1996 at
the Georgia Institute of Technology with sponsorship from the US Navy. As a
commercial product, it will be used to monitor vital functions of astronauts,
the chronically ill, elderly persons living alone, athletes, infants, and
other requiring constant surveillance for medical reasons. SensaTex is in the
process of gaining FDA approval and hopes that the Samrt Shirt will be
commercially available next year. 

http://www.sensatex.com
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