What now? Well, Taiwan is finally putting it's massive electronics
manufacturing base to work for itself. They're creating a jacket,
presumably, that will have solar panels integrated into it. The solar
panels will power some various health-monitoring devices (body heat,
heart rate, blood pressure, and an RFID emitter that will beam the
information to the health provider.Freakin' weird. From Infoworld: "A system could be designed that's powerful enough to run a laptop computer, but it would take a lot more solar panels -- and therefore a very big jacket, said Chang Cheng-tung, deputy chief of system integration at the institute." Apparently we could see these 'e-health' jackets within a couple of years. I like the idea, I just probably won't like the jacket.
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written by Indigo, August 10, 2007
I am not sure if this will ever pass the concept stage. As a headline grabbing piece of eco-fashion, maybe, otherwise...
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"Given medical trust issues, RFID interference(no fighting Physics here..."
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