Wearable Health

In spite of minus temperatures, skiing and snowboarding can easily make you swea
In spite of minus temperatures, skiing and snowboarding can easily make you sweat. High-tech cloth-ing can help here. Image: Mauro Paillex / Unsplash
In spite of minus temperatures, skiing and snowboarding can easily make you sweat. High-tech cloth-ing can help here. Image: Mauro Paillex / Unsplash - There is more than cool looks about hip clothing for top performance: Thanks to a variety of smart technologies, high-tech clothing today is capable of analyzing body functions or actively optimizing the microclimate. The basis of these novel textiles are "smart" fibers and biocompatible composites that also contribute to innovations in biomedical research such as sensors, drug delivery systems or tissue engineering. Sport in winter has its pitfalls. Outside it is freezing cold, and insulating clothing is a must. However, if you move around a lot, your body's own "AC" kicks in: The skin releases liters of cooling sweat.
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