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Article: Researches at Virginia university wire up 'Hokie Suit' with electronic sensors.
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- August 26, 2004
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By Andrew Kantor, The Roanoke Times, Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 26--If the clothes make the man, Mark Jones and Tom Martin are creating a cyborg.
The two computer engineering professors work in Virginia Tech's e-Textile Laboratory, where they're creating a wearable computer, clothing that's interwoven with fabric-like wires, sporting sensors and processors, and designed to monitor the wearer's health -- and even protect it.
Their research could lead to comfortable, unobtrusive and detailed medical monitoring devices that would give doctors critical information about their patients.
The prototype is called the ...