There is another interesting european research from IST - beside work clothes like yesterday this one focuses on healthcare.

What is Wealthy? - The main objective of WEALTHY is to set up a comfortable health monitoring system. This will be based on a "wearable" interface, implemented by integrating smart sensors (in fiber and yarn form), advanced signal processing techniques and modern telecommunication systems on a textile platform and by developing a monitoring system for data management with local intelligence in the form of a decision support unit.OverviewIST is for Information Society Technologies