Yoel Fink et. al.
Computer jerseys are already being tested on military. They have memory and provide data on the human body to help us control health.
What if new “elastic computers” on wires could be sewn on clothes and used to record data from all over the body that most medical sensors cannot capture?
It sounds like science fiction, but no: it is the latest creation of Yoel Fink and his colleagues from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The wire has 256 kilobytes of integrated memorymore or less the same as a simple calculator. It has Bluetooth, and is able to collect data on the location of the body, explains the.
“We are reaching a point where we can create Fabric Applications And start monitoring our health and doing all kinds of things a mobile phone, frankly, can’t do it, ”says Fink.
The authors of the published in Nature This week they doubled the chips in a conductive box and turned them on with a copper wire. Then they enveloped him in a plastic that protects him. This set was then pulled to a thinner tube that can be covered by fabric, such as cotton or Kevlar synthetic fiber.
The team is now testing clothes made with wire computers in an expedition to the Arctic, as part of Operation Nanook, a military army military exercise.
In addition to registering the exercise, it can be, for example, useful for detecting when a vulnerable person had a Dangerous fall, explains researcher Theo Hughes-Riley.
What makes it more effective is that it does not need to have sensors connected with each other, which makes your practical application simpler. And the wires can even be washed “But only with water, which is careful when we talk about technological clothing.”
