Philips dreams up underwear-infused blood pressure monitoring system
Before long, hardware-laden undergarments will be a necessity in life. After all, we’ve already seen underwear that fends off cellphone radiation, and now Philips is looking to create a pair that actually monitors one’s blood pressure continually. A recent patent application from the firm details a “wearable” system, but it does point out that “it is particularly suitable for implementation in a continuously wearable undergarment with integrated measuring sensors or electrodes, so as to be directly in contact with the subject’s skin.” We can only assume that if these actually make it beyond the drawing board that they’ll have an integrated wireless module in order to beam out vitals at all hours of the day, but we’re personally a little wary about having all this hardware so close to, um, our hardware.
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