Smart Underpants For Medical Use In The Future?

Privacy is a very important issue to most of us, but when it comes to a medical situation, you might want the doctor to know everything about you. Turns out that a nanoengineering professor at the University of California has come up with some fancy underpants that have sensors built into the waistband, allowing it to sense blood pressure, heart rate and other stats. The idea is to let doctors remotely keep an eye on a soldier or patient’s vitals easily, allowing them to determine if someone is in need of medical attention. Thanks to some fancy tech, these sensors are printed on the briefs, using a technique similar to inkjet printers, so the sensors won’t be irritating against the skin anymore than the elastic that’s already there. If it’s practical, we might just end up having to wear these when we visit the hospital in the future.