Wearable devices are popular these days. Being able to sense how our bodies are functioning is useful in areas like healthcare and sports.
Our bodies broadcast gigabytes of data through the skin every second in the form of heat, sound and light.
Now MIT engineers have built a fabric computer that can be stitched into regular clothes providing whole-body monitoring, capable of analysing the data.
The US Army and Navy are on a research mission in the Arctic successfully testing the technology of fabric computers stitched into their working clothes.
It may not be long before our exercise-outfits have as much computing power as an early home computer.
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