{"id":146879,"date":"2022-09-23T15:27:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/wearable-sensors-styled-into-t-shirts-and-face-masks"},"modified":"2022-09-23T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-23T20:27:30","slug":"wearable-sensors-styled-into-t-shirts-and-face-masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/wearable-sensors-styled-into-t-shirts-and-face-masks","title":{"rendered":"Wearable sensors styled into t-shirts and face masks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wearable-sensors-styled-into-t-shirts-and-face-masks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imperial researchers have embedded new low-cost sensors that monitor breathing, heart rate, and ammonia into t-shirts and face masks.<\/p>\n<p>Potential applications range from monitoring exercise, sleep, and stress to diagnosing and monitoring disease through breath and vital signs.<\/p>\n<p>Spun from a new Imperial-developed cotton-based conductive <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/thread\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">thread<\/a> called PECOTEX, the sensors cost little to manufacture. Just $0.15 produces a meter of thread to seamlessly integrate more than ten sensors into clothing, and PECOTEX is compatible with industry-standard computerized embroidery machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperial researchers have embedded new low-cost sensors that monitor breathing, heart rate, and ammonia into t-shirts and face masks. Potential applications range from monitoring exercise, sleep, and stress to diagnosing and monitoring disease through breath and vital signs. Spun from a new Imperial-developed cotton-based conductive thread called PECOTEX, the sensors cost little to manufacture. Just [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}