New electronic thread revolutionizes discreet wearable medical monitoring

While everyone needs technology of one sort or another, certain people shrink from any stigma associated with it. In fact, those people may be less likely to let others see them using that tech no matter how much they need it, even if that wearable technology is as widespread as eyeglasses.

So, how much of a threat does that stigma pose when the wearable technology in question is for medical monitoring?

While professors at Tufts University in the US haven’t found a way to engineer the end of stigma, bigotry, or shame, they have created a wearable technology that’s so thin, light, flexible, and unobtrusive that even its own users barely notice they're wearing it. While around 33% of Americans wear smart rings and smart watches which can function as medical monitors, the Tufts breakthrough is in smart threads – think of them as “thread-ectronics.”

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