Look for a Shirt That "Thinks"
From: Innovation: America's Journal of Technology Commercialization
      Jun/July 2006 - page 4

So now it's smart shirts. Or at least that’s what Sensatex, a textile
company, might one day be promoting. The company says its patented SmartShirt
System could remotely monitor human vital signs. The shirt, ready for beta
testing, can monitor the wearer’s movement, heart rate and respiration rate
in real time through a nanotechnology conductive fiber grid that is
seamlessly knit into the material of the fully washable shirt. "Today," says
Sensatex CEO Robert Kalik, "wearable technology is science, not science
fiction. Following a series of successful tests with first responders and the
subsequent development of a seamless knit shirt integrating a conductive
fiber system to wirelessly carry physiological signals from the body,
Sensatex is ready to begin research and reliability studies using the
SmartShirt System in a broad range of applications."  

The system could monitor the elderly at home; observe outpatients in
post-operative or chronic illness situations; provide training support for
athletes and remote monitoring for first responders, hazardous-materials
workers and soldiers in the field; and monitor truck drivers' vital signs to
alert them of fatigue. Using light cotton fabric, the shirt has fully
integrated conductive fibers to create connectivity to acquire and transfer
analog physiological signals to a small personal controller. 

Read the article at:
http://www.innovation-america.org/upfront.php

Image of SmartShirt:
http://www.geekologie.com/images/2006/05/smartshirt.jpg

Links:
Sensatex
http://www.sensatex.com/

SmartShirt Health Monitoring
http://www.sensatex.com/smartshirt_hm.html

Ready to test a 'SmartShirt'?
http://www.primidi.com/2006/05/13.html
http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=237
http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/html/news/SmartShirt.System.Nanotechnology.13399.cfm

SmartShirt for remotely monitoring human vital signs
http://mtbeurope.info/news/2006/605030.htm

SmartShirt Remote Monitoring System
http://www.geekologie.com/2006/05/smartshirt_remote_monitoring_s.html

Developing smart textiles for health monitoring: the benefits and the challenges
http://www.phealth-2006.com/abstracts/AS3_kalik.pdf
http://www.phealth-2006.com/presentations/S3_Kalik.pdf

Smart textiles offer wearable solutions using Nanotechnology 
http://www.fibre2fashion.com/news/NewsDetails.asp?News_id=11705

Wearable technology
http://www.rdmag.com/ShowPR.aspx?PUBCODE=014&ACCT=1400000100&ISSUE=0607&RELTYPE=EMT&PRODCODE=00000000&PRODLETT=BP