Today, various medical gadgets help millions of people to be healthier and to monitor their health status. Unfortunately, the heart problems are not rare nowadays, making the heart monitoring gadgets more popular than the others are. Regular heart monitoring gadgets show information about heart rate, blood pressure, in some cases also sugar level - this is basic information that many people need to check for. However, sometimes knowledge of these basic parameters will be not enough to see a real picture of your health status, that’s why there is need in more complex and multifunctional gadgets. Like this one, that incorporates all the heart-monitoring tools in one jacket.Vital Jacket is a very versatile heart-monitoring system made in a wearable form, created in the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Joining textiles and microelectronics, it was designed to be able to monitor health status in different life situations. It has all abilities to perform high quality vital signs monitoring, from a heart rate to a full electrocardiogram of a patient, and is very comfortable to wear. It can operate even when the patient is on the go, running or working out, so this jacket can be useful for fitness purposes too. The data can be stored on the SD card and analyzed later or it can be instantly shown on the screen of PDA or smartphone - the method depends on the model you choose, the HWM100 or HWM200.
This jacket is a good example of how should the health monitoring devices be implemented - there is no better option than clothes. If this idea develops, and these technologies spread, then we will no longer need regular medical examination - all will be done in real-time and if everything bad might happen, you will surely know it beforehand. It can be very useful for sports too, providing real-time information of heart rate, which is very useful when you carefully plan your exercises. This jacket can be purchased for 399 Euros for the HWM100 or HWM200 model.
