News Summary

• Professor at Tufts University in the US has created a wearable technology that’s so thin, light, flexible, and unobtrusive that even its own users barely notice they're wearing it.
• While around 33% of Americans wear smart rings and smart watches which can function as medical monitors, the Tufts breakthrough is in smart threads – think of them as “thread-ectronics” The new med-tech will move naturally with the human body rather than forcing humans to adapt their movement to it.