Smart fashion has been developing for some years to make our lives easier and take care of our health, especially. In addition to the bracelets and smartwatches that have more and more functions to record our physical state, there are other garments designed to monitor us.
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recently created smart fibers to track the movements of those who wear them. From there prototypes of jackets, socks and gloves arose made with a mixture of traditional fibers and tactile electronic material that is sensitive to pressure, whose objective is to analyze the physical state of a person, recommend a series of exercises and check if they are performed correctly to avoid injury.
In the sports field, we can see very light training vests with built-in GPS. These collect data such as the heart rate of each player, accelerations, decelerations, the number of passes of the ball, kilometers traveled, body impacts, and wear and tear. This technology has been of great help to teams, using it they can monitor training sessions and set new competitive goals, improving performance and taking care of the health of athletes.
But it is not limited to the sports world, there are other models of built-in GPS clothing, which is activated when the person wearing it moves away from home, just as there are shoes capable of studying biomechanical data, providing enough information to help prevent falls.
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