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Textronics expands into U.K. with NuMetrex clothes that monitor the body
October 9th, 2006
Textronics, Inc., a company in electronic textiles, has expanded into the sports and consumer retail markets in the United Kingdom with its NuMetrex brand of clothes that monitor the body. The NuMetrex heart sensing sports bra was launched by Textronics in December 2005, and was named 2006 Sports Product of the Year by the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association. The garment features electronic sensing technology that is integrated right into the knit of the fabric, which picks up the heart's electrical pulse and radios it to a wrist watch via a tiny transmitter in the bra. Textronics is currently working to expand the NuMetrex...
Source: Managed Care Weekly Digest (2006-10-09)
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