CES 2023: Now Wrap Yourself in Smart Fabrics

CES 2023: Now Wrap Yourself in Smart Fabrics

Biosensor patches that conform to the body and woven fabrics with embedded electronic components promise greater comfort than more common sensor formats that you wear on your wrist, hang on a belt, or pin on clothing. We began covering woven sensors and smart patches...
Woven T-Shirt Sensors Monitor Vital Signs

Woven T-Shirt Sensors Monitor Vital Signs

Smart fabrics may change the way we dress. In the future, apparel manufacturers may be able to incorporate any digital health wearable function in their garments (with the possible exception of displays). Smart fabric is a familiar topic. We wrote about work at The...
Tell-All T-Shirt Monitors Your Health

Tell-All T-Shirt Monitors Your Health

Biometric sensors integrated into clothing enable unobtrusive, continuous monitoring for a variety of applications. We’ve written about Hexoskin, a shirt developed at Radboud University Medical School in the Netherlands that measures breathing in patients with...