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07/06/2015 11:23 AM
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Report Copyright Violation | This Wearable 'Heart Sock' May Someday Save Lives This is the first I've seen of this..it's from last year but really cool... " There's a lot of buzz around wearable electronics these days—Google, for instance, is expanding into the eyewear business, while other companies are scrambling for their share of the market with high-tech clips and watches that track what you eat and how you move.
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But none of them are remotely like what John Rogers, the 2013 Smithsonian American Ingenuity award winner in physical sciences, is developing. His device, you see, is engineered not only to fit like a glove, but also perhaps someday save the wearer's life.
The materials scientist, along with his team of students at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have successfully tested what's best described as a sock for the heart. The device, fitted over the entire surface area of the heart, is comprised of a series of sensors to monitor, with uncanny precision, the inner workings of this most vital organ. If it detects a troubling abnormality, it can relay data to medical professionals; in an emergency, such as during a heart attack, it could even intervene by administering an electrode-induced pulse."Read more: [ link to www.smithsonianmag.com] |
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07/06/2015 11:38 AM
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07/06/2015 05:39 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: This Wearable 'Heart Sock' May Someday Save Lives Why does man choose technology (evil) over a healthy lifestyle in truth where disease is a non issue. Limiting their evolution..? And why are they so afraid of death? wmMmw |
