This week’s Smart Health roundup features a branded smart shirt, a new way to track your sleep patterns, and technologies that do not connect to the Internet but could definitely get someone out of a tight spot.

Polo Tech Smart Shirt

Ralph Lauren Corp. has debuted the Polo Tech Smart Shirt at the US Open. The Polo Tech Smart Shirt was made in collaboration with OMsignal Inc., a company that specializes in garments laced with sensors that collects data so sports enthusiasts can better understand their body.

The Polo Tech Smart Shirt uses silver-yarn-based sensors woven in the fabric of the shirt itself that gathers data such as the wearer’s heart rate, breathing, and other activities and directly deliver these data to the wearer’s smartphone or tablet so they can better analyze how their body is performing.

Though the shirt debuted at the US Open, interested consumers won’t be able to purchase the RL-branded smart shirt until 2015.

Sense your way to a goodnight’s sleep

Hello Inc. has developed a system that would help people learn more about their sleep patterns, how well they’ve been sleeping, what’s waking them up at wee hours of the night, and the best part is you don’t have to wear anything.

Called Sense, the system is made up of sphere-like device called Sense, a Smart Pill and the mobile app. The Sense gathers information about your environment such as the temperature and or noises that could be waking you up in the middle of the night. The second part of the equation, the Smart Pill is a hockey puck-like device that clips on your pillow that detects whether a person is awake, falling asleep, asleep, thrashing about, or whatever it is you do when you lie on your bed at night. The mobile app ties the Sense and Smart Pill together so users can know what woke them up at 3 AM, how long it took for them to fall asleep, and so on.

Sense has been successfully funded on Kickstarter, raising over $2.4 million, and early backers can expect to get their device by November 2014.

Non-tech goodies

SiliconANGLE’s Smart World Series is centered on things that connect to the Internet that makes people’s lives easier, more convenient, albeit at times more confusing for some.  The once in a blue moon, there are some innovations that are not technology advanced but are worthy of a spot in the series.

Undercover Colors is a nail polish developed by four undergraduates at NC State University which is designed to change color when it comes in contact with date rape drugs such as Rohypnol (roofies) or GHB (G-juice). Wearers can simply stick their finger in their drink if they suspect that their drink has been spiked.

Though the intention of the Undercover Colors is good, it has been met with a lot of controversy since rape doesn’t always involve the use of date rape drugs. There are also claims it dismisses the fact that men should play an active role in preventing rape from happening.

OSNovative Systems, Inc. has developed a smart wound dressing called the Enluxtra dressing. What makes it smart is that it is able to adapt to the type of wound a person has. If a person has an exuding wound, Enluxtra’s function will be of absorption, but when the wound dries, the function turns to hydration to help the wound heal faster.

“With this technology, maceration and desiccation will never occur, thus resulting in a more desirable healing process of any wound in any wound stage,” the company said on its website.

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