It’s cutting-edge technology, even if it’s not cutting-edge fashion.  Joseph Wang, a nano-engineer at the University of California-San Diego has developed a pair of smart underwear that that monitor body temperature, heart and pulse rates, and other important medical information thanks to monitors built into the waistband of the brief-style shorts.  Your mother was right; wearing clean underwear just might save your life some day (in addition to protecting your modesty)!

“This specific project involves monitoring the injury of soldiers during battlefield surgery and the goal is to develop minimally invasive sensors that can locate, in the field, and identify the type of injury,” said Dr. Wang, hoping to get into the pants of the US Army.  “We envision all the trend of personalized medicine for remote monitoring of the elderly at home, monitoring a wide range of biomedical markers, like cardiac markers, alerting for any potential stroke, diabetic changes and other changes related to other biomedical scenario.”

Each pair of Dr. Wang’s smartypants have to be precisely calibrated to fit the person wearing them, at least at the present, but he hopes that a test-run with the Army might help him refine his technology, as well as save lives.  Maybe he can give the lingerie scientists at Victoria’s Secret a call for help getting his skivvies to fit right?

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