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Future washable smart clothes powered by Wi-Fi will monitor your health

Future washable smart clothes powered by Wi-Fi will monitor your health | The Future of Healthcare | Scoop.it
From phys.org - June 17, 2021 12:24 AM

Purdue University engineers have developed a method to transform existing cloth items into battery-free wearables resistant to laundry. These smart clothes are powered wirelessly through a flexible, silk-based coil sewn on the textile.

 

In the near future, all your clothes will become smart. These smart clothes will outperform conventional passive garments, thanks to their miniaturized electronic circuits and sensors, which will allow you to seamlessly communicate with your phone, computer, car and other machines.

 

This smart clothing will not only make you more productive but also check on your health status and even call for help if you suffer an accident. The reason why this smart clothing is not all over your closet yet is that the fabrication of this smart clothing is quite challenging, as clothes need to be periodically washed and electronics despise water.

 

Purdue engineers have developed a new spray/sewing method to transform any conventional cloth items into battery-free wearables that can be cleaned in the washing machine.

 

"By spray-coating smart clothes with highly hydrophobic molecules, we are able to render them repellent to water, oil and mud," said Ramses Martinez, an assistant professor in Purdue's School of Industrial Engineering and in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering in Purdue's College of Engineering. "These smart clothes are almost impossible to stain and can be used underwater and washed in conventional washing machines without damaging the electronic components sewn on their surface."

 

read the study at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2021.106155

 

read the original and unedited version of the article at https://phys.org/news/2021-06-wearables-future-washable-smart-powered.html

 

 

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Stephanie Chavarria's curator insight, November 12, 2021 2:40 PM
this is interesting to buy it is beneficial for other's and for people that really need it for example this website helps and gives goods reasons why we should be this type of product it says it's foe your health and good and not needs. 
Avidity Medical Design Consultants, LLC's comment, January 28, 2022 12:03 AM
Smart clothing is an excellent concept, especially being able to check on a person's health and call for help in the event of an accident. Thanks for sharing.
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Can a smartphone be used to reliably detect early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder?

Can a smartphone be used to reliably detect early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder? | The Future of Healthcare | Scoop.it
From jamanetwork.com - May 15, 2021 1:27 PM

Atypical eye gaze is an early-emerging symptom of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and holds promise for autism screening.

 

Current eye-tracking methods are expensive and require special equipment and calibration. There is a need for scalable, feasible methods for measuring eye gaze.

 

This case-control study examines whether a mobile app that displays strategically designed brief movies can elicit and quantify differences in eye-gaze patterns of toddlers with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) vs those with typical development.

 

In effect, using computational methods based on computer vision analysis, can a smartphone or tablet be used in real-world settings to reliably detect early symptoms of autism spectrum disorder? 

 

Findings

In this study, a mobile device application deployed on a smartphone or tablet and used during a pediatric visit detected distinctive eye-gaze patterns in toddlers with autism spectrum disorder compared with typically developing toddlers, which were characterized by reduced attention to social stimuli and deficits in coordinating gaze with speech sounds.

 

What this means

These methods may have potential for developing scalable autism screening tools, exportable to natural settings, and enabling data sets amenable to machine learning.

 

 

Conclusions and Relevance

The app reliably measured both known and new gaze biomarkers that distinguished toddlers with ASD vs typical development. These novel results may have potential for developing scalable autism screening tools, exportable to natural settings, and enabling data sets amenable to machine learning.

 

read the study at https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2779395

 

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nrip's curator insight, May 15, 2021 1:23 PM

Identifying autism in toddlers is helpful to starting care for it early. This study's results demonstrate that with an app based approach coupled with an algorithmic approach, it is certainly possible to get possibly affected children in for detailed clinical evaluations earlier and fairly cheaply.

 

Thus, doctors will be able to install an app on their smartphone/tablet, one that is capable of analyzing the visual gaze of a toddler in order to determine if they may be on the autism spectrum.

And, in time,  parents and family members will be able to download it onto their own smartphones/tablets  carry out the screening themselves.

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greco's curator insight, December 29, 2022 4:04 PM
une idee qui pourrait etre un bon outil pour aider au depistage, qui fonctionne comme une ia, mais a ne pas detrouner de son usage malgré la fréquences des tsa chez les jeunes et leur nombreuses conséquences sociales et developpementales. il s'agit d'une application qui se sert d'une base de donnée référence, qui compare les regards associes a des stimulas divers. 
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