Is that a sensor in your underwear?
Heart patients may soon be able to buy underwear designed to detect heart rhythm abnormalities and even call for an ambulance in case of emergency, according to researchers at Netherlands-based Philips Electronics.
The researchers have developed sensors that measure body signals such as heart rate information, which can be sown into bras and shorts and which connect to a thin chip module that monitors the signals.
"These sensors pick up electric signals in the body. They don't have to touch the skin and can be sown into clothes, which can be put in the laundry," a spokesman for Philips Research said.
