Sports Bra Counts Heartbeats: ; 'Smart Fabrics' Might Change World As; Dramatically As the Internet Did
Sunday Gazette-Mail › December 19, 2005
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WASHINGTON - A new sports bra that counts heartbeats is causing a Christmas stir.
The bra, introduced last week, is the first consumer product to be based on an electronic interaction between a textile and its wearer. A special conductive fabric in the chest band, when it's wet, picks up the heart's electrical pulse and radios it to a digital readout wristwatch via a tiny transmitter in the bra.See the full content of this document
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Sports Bra Counts Heartbeats: ; 'Smart Fabrics' Might Change World As; Dramatically As the Internet Did
Such "smart fabrics" are the next big thing in so many fields that some analysts go so far as to predict that they'll change the world as dramatically as the Internet did.
"The applications are limitless, and they're for everybody," said Spyros ...See the full content of this document
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