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VitalJacket: Heart Monitor And T-Shirt in One

Some of the same kind of health telemetry that the French army may be using could be yours in the new VitalJacket product. It's a smart T-shirt with a built-in electrocardiogram monitor, designed for both medical diagnostics and sports fitness uses. It's supposed to be less awkward than conventional devices, as well as more comfortable. The HWM200 version sends data on the wearer's heart over a Bluetooth link to a phone or PDA, allowing real-time monitoring. The 100 version stores it on an SD card for later analysis on a PC and allows the wearer to define heart rate limits which trigger a vibration alarm in the shirt. Both editions are available for pre-order for around $635. [Vitaljacket via Talk2myshirt]

7:38 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Kit Eaton
1,684 views, 21 comments

Latest by Curves: @ripfire4: Blame Strider, he started it. I just hopped on the french joke bandwagon. Besides, any nation or culture that behaves that way is asking for it. Yes, mine too. more »

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US Soldiers to Get Brain Microchipped to Measure Vitals

rieceimg.jpegThe Department of Defense is pursuing a brain-implantable "biochip" that will measure/relay a soldier's vitals on the battlefield (and off). We don't know much from a technical standpoint about the chips, other than they are about the size of a grain of rice and will have the ability to, at minimum, measure oxygen levels in tissue. But the technological breakthrough involved has little to do with the electronics. More »

9:49 AM on Wed Aug 1 2007
By Mark Wilson
6,408 views, 32 comments