One of the U.S. military's many attempts to design a uniform of the future. Photo: RDECOM
New Navy Uniform Could Monitor Sailors’ Pee for Signs of Nuclear Attack -- The Danger Room
The military’s uniforms will probably never be runway ready. But in the future, a soldier’s threads might very well be quite a bit sharper.
As in, more intelligent. At least if the Office of Naval Research gets its way. On ONR’s latest call for research proposals, the organization is asking for uniforms to be capable of measuring soldiers’ vital signs, detecting the location and severity of their bullet wounds and even transmitting their location to medical personnel via GPS sensors implanted into clothing fabric.
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My Comment: I expect the fruits of this research to one day also show up in regular clothing.
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