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Home → Blog → How Smart Are Your Drawers?

How Smart Are Your Drawers?

Posted on June 24, 2010 by Lynn Charles Rathbun

Smart phones, smart refrigerators, how about smart underwear? Researchers at University of California-San Diego have been making boxer shorts with tiny sensors that can measure biomarkers that are found in sweat. Biomarkers like glucose, lactic acid are all important things to measure. The sensors are made of tiny flexible electrodes that are tucked under the waist band and they can measure stress or performance levels. This is important for athletes or soldiers or perhaps even you?.  The researchers are working with their colleagues at Clarkson University, no word if they are available in colors or just plain white.

for more info http://tinyurl.com/smartshorts

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