Underwear gets sweat-monitoring capability

Gone are the days when the humble underwear is meant to keep your family jewels nice and safe – this time round, nanoengineers at UC San Diego has included special sensors in a pair of underwear that come in the form of carbon electrodes in order to realize electrochemical computing. Before it can be put to good use though, it had to be subjected to a whole lot of bending and stretching to make sure that it will work just fine. The final result is meant to be a “smart underwear” which will help measure a soldier’s sweat for warning signs, in order for it to trigger an appropriate medical dosage automatically. What do you think of such an underwear – can one that measures the overall stench to let out a beep to inform the wearer that it is time for a change be invented as well?