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Mar 28, 2022

This novel fabric can ‘hear’ your heartbeat

Posted by in categories: engineering, materials

“An engineering team from MIT collaborated with students from Rhode Island School of Design to create a textile that can hear and (eventually) interpret what’s happening on and inside our bodies.”


A new fiber made from a piezoelectric material and a conductor can register sound as mechanical waves and convert it into electrical waves, helping monitor bodies.

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