Sensatex, a textile engineering company, is developing a smart shirt system, a wearable, and fully washable shirt with a seamlessly integrated biometric monitoring and physiological information aggregation and broadcast platform, which allows for remote monitoring of data, including heart rate, respiration and body temperature. The shirt has a number of applications, including monitoring athletic performance for athletic training, home health monitoring for the elderly, remote monitoring for first responders, hazard materials workers, and soldiers in the field, and watching professional truck drivers’ vital signs to alert them of fatigue. The company has funding from DARPA.

[thanks, Oliver Starr]