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11.05.2000

This shirt was invented by American engineer Marvin Sackner. Woven into the fabric of the shirt, which resembles a turtleneck, are six types of sensors, the same ones that monitor the condition of patients in an intensive care unit, but greatly miniaturized.

The shirt registers up to 40 vital parameters of the person wearing it. Both common medical indicators are measured: blood pressure, pulse, cardiogram, temperature, and less commonly used, for example, the difference in the movements of the left and right halves of the chest during breathing (this difference may indicate the accumulation of fluid in the lungs).

The experience of monitoring the health of cosmonauts was used. A thin cable from the shirt is connected to a pocket computer, which accumulates the collected data. Through the computer keyboard, the patient can also enter subjective data about their feelings, such as pain or dizziness.

From time to time, the wearer of the shirt sends all the collected information via the Internet to doctors, who give him advice in the same way. The diagnostic shirt will appear in American stores this fall. When mass-produced, it will cost less than a hundred dollars, which is six to seven times cheaper than the PDA required for this system.

Only one question arises: if a person is so ill that he needs constant monitoring of 40 parameters of the body, is it not better for him to lie in the hospital?

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