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Underwear Detects Heart Problems
   Recently, Philips Electronics came out with a network of sensors woven into ordinary clothing, like underwear.
Scentsory Chameleon Bodysuit: Biometric Fashion
   The Scentsory Chameleon Bodysuit is a "smart second skin" with integrated printed organic opto-electronics and integrated flexible nano-genetic devices on textiles.
Fatal Vision Goggles - Simulate Impaired Driving
   Fatal Vision Simulator Goggles are designed to help you see poorly. They simulate the experience of driving while under the influence.
MEMSwear Fall Fashion - Bluetooth-enabled Motion Detection Shirt
   Fallen and you can't get up? This shirt has already called for help.
Electronic Underwear Monitors Your Heart
   Philips Research in Germany announced on Friday that they have developed underwear that monitors your heart. The underwear can also dial 911 for you.
Geo-View ECG-Shirt - So Close To A Heartshirt
   Geo-View has created a new shirt for sports enthusiasts (and others) called the ECG-Shirt. It has incorporated high-tech foil containing sensors that measure heart rate, yielding an electrocardiogram.
Augmented Reality Cemetery Tour - The Dead Speak
   An Augmented Reality tour of Atlanta's Oakland cemetery will let the dead speak to visitors. In a recent trial run, users carried laptops in backpacks and used game controllers to navigate the cemetary.
Bio-Shirts From Korea Monitor Athletes
   Very lightweight shirt to help elite athletes (and amateurs) train and avoid overstraining themselves - maybe you'll wear one when you get older.
Gummi Bots: Biomimetic Soft-Bodied Robots
   These flexible creepy-crawlies are on their way like little caterpillars.
T-Qualiser Club Shirt Has Electro- Gobbledi- Googescence
   This shirt tells you whether you're getting enough base at the club.
Smart Bra Does Breast Cancer Screening
   This prototype could lead the way to an easy method of breast cancer screening that could lead to more breast cancer cures through early detection.
Fingersight Synesthesia Machine
   Fascinating haptic interface device lets you feel what you can see; Rudy Rucker wrote about something quite similar about twenty years ago.
Vital Jacket Heart (Monitoring) Shirt Via Rudy Rucker
   I'm going to keep on collecting example technologies that are almost a Rucker heartshirt, because I know someday those docs are going to get it right.
Chembot Squishy SquishBot Robots Desired By DARPA
   DARPA is on the look out for a new kind of soft meso-scale robot that can sneak under doors like an octopus.
Tributes.com Digital Obituary News
   Want to live forever on the web? This site intends to bring obituary notices to the web, with the potential to offer multi-media tributes to comfort the bereaved.
Smart Fabrics For Biomonitoring
   New development could make the development of a heartshirt cheap, and not merely possible.
SquishBot Soft Shape-Changing 'Chembots'
   These soft-bodied shape-shifting robots are needed by DARPA; MIT wants theirs to lay down a trail of slime.
Plasmobot Amorphous Biological Robot
   'The plasmodium is capable of solving complex computational tasks, such as the shortest path between points and other logical calculations.'
'Warning Signs' T-Shirt Is CO2 Detector
   Why not let others see your concerns?
Somnus Sleep Shirt - Sweet Dreams
   Get your REM on.
LOBIN Intelligent T-Shirts
   At some point, we'll all wear intelligent t-shirts.
Multigait Soft Robot Squishes, Walks And Crawls
   Simple actuation, complex motion.
DARPA M3 Soft Camo Robots
   'Monique's tissues had at least three other basic attractor modes... [like] the spread-out "puddle" shape...'
Biosensing Clothing Listens To Your Heart
   I'm thinking that Rudy Rucker should have one of these...
OMsignal Heart Shirt With Woven Electronics
   'It can feel your heartbeat … look...'- Rudy Rucker, 1988.
Ralph Lauren Polo Tech Shirt
   'It can feel your heartbeat...'- Rudy Rucker, 1988.
3D Printed Soft Robotic Tentacle May Grab You
   'Monique's tissues had at least three other basic attractor modes as well...' - Rudy Rucker, 1997.
Microsupercapacitors Make Wearable Electronics Disappear
   'He pressed the button in his sleeve communicator...' - Murray Leinster, 1945.
Soft Caterpillar Robot Powered By Light
   'the spread-out "puddle" shape she used for soaking up sun...' - Rudy Rucker, 1997.
Festo's eMotionButterfly, AirJelly And AirPenguin Robots
   ... Bright beings darted through the hot light.' - Rudy Rucker, 1988.
Jabil Integrated Textile Heart Monitoring
   'Della's first present was an imipolex sweatshirt called a heartshirt…' Rudy Rucker, 1988.
Inkjet-Printed Wearable Solar Cells
   Ultra-thin wearable organic photovoltaic material.
AI Tries To Replicate Famous People
   'Religion’s one thing, Mr. Leckesh, but immortality’s something else. Lo says immortality’s no big problem anymore.' - Rudy Rucker, 1986.

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