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Researchers Create a T-Shirt That Monitors the Wearer's Breathing Rate In Real Time (sciencedaily.com)
"Researchers at Universite Laval's Faculty of Science and Engineering and its Center for Optics, Photonics, and Lasers have created a smart T-shirt that monitors the wearer's respiratory rate in real time," reports Science Daily. The details have been published in the latest edition of Sensors. From the report: Unlike other methods of measuring respiratory rate, the smart T shirt works without any wires, electrodes, or sensors attached to the user's body, explains Younes Messaddeq, the professor who led the team that developed the technology. "The T shirt is really comfortable and doesn't inhibit the subject's natural movements. Our tests show that the data captured by the shirt is reliable, whether the user is lying down, sitting, standing, or moving around." The key to the smart T shirt is an antenna sewn in at chest level that's made of a hollow optical fiber coated with a thin layer of silver on its inner surface. The fiber's exterior surface is covered in a polymer that protects it against the environment. "The antenna does double duty, sensing and transmitting the signals created by respiratory movements," adds Professor Messaddeq, who also holds the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Photonic Innovations. "The data can be sent to the user's smartphone or a nearby computer." As the wearer breathes in, the smart fiber senses the increase in both thorax circumference and the volume of air in the lungs, explains Messaddeq. "These changes modify some of the resonant frequency of the antenna. That's why the T shirt doesn't need to be tight or in direct contact with the wearer's skin. The oscillations that occur with each breath are enough for the fiber to sense the user's respiratory rate."
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Hey Beau, just because something has electronics in it doesn't mean that it's smart. Can it reason? Can it have a conversation with you?
Have you completed grammar school yet, little boy?
And we all thought systemd couldn't be topped for being a useless solution in search of a problem.
Wear one of these shirts to prove to those bitches that their skimpy clothes will not arouse you to spend your money on gold digging bitch cunts.
Which town was once prosperous?
but...
It cannot be washed
You can only wear it once because you can't throw it in the wash. :-P
Have gnu, will travel.
Beau, well before you were born, America really was a land of prosperity. You could go to about any city in the 1960s and find abundant opportunities. Granted, that was half a century before you were born, but in the grander scheme of things, it was not all that long ago.
-roderick-
but...
It cannot be washed
Neither can your mom's vagina. It's like a perpetual-motion cum-catcher. I really was appalled that the Guiness Book of World Records people didn't seem interested. No, Sir, not even your own extreme douchebaggery is enough to cleanse this one. No water yet discovered is pure enough, nor vinegar strong enough to remedy this fact. Good day!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Maybe the plight of others might be better if people actually gave decent treatment of others rather than shoving them into 'racial' lines like black and white.
The way forward is not to wish "American blacks" to improve it's to improve America for all, no matter who they are. That's a better tomorrow. Thanks.
Indians: the other black people.
If you throw in the 1.2B Indians to the mix of Africans, you MORE than even out the genetics towards black people. So I don't want to hear any stupid apologists trying to spin the argument.
The project sounds like throwing "researchers" at it is a bit of an overkill. But just a little.
Hey Beau, just because something has electronics in it doesn't mean that it's smart. Can it reason? Can it have a conversation with you? Have you completed grammar school yet, little boy?
Yes, because "Smartphones" contain genuine AIs, right?
Smart is just a marketing word, not a philosophically rigorous definition.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
"Is not bug. Is medical device for humanity!"
Monitoring in real-time is easy. :).
Trying to rebuild past breathing rate from body watermarks after the fact would be at least a topic.
Like autopsy but on live bodies
Think about your breathing?!
And, of course, sends this data to your local government.
I guess people don't care if we monitor the living shit out of everything they do.
When can I get some DNA altering nanites built into these so I can reprogram them to revert these idiots to their ideal species???
Not giving google or any other advertiser any kind of biotelemetry. Ever.
Lots of things that are labeled as "smart" can't communicate effectively.
Just look at your comment.