Sample unfinished "smart shirt" or "wearable motherboard", Georgia Tech, 1990s
date: label: Date made
content: ca 1996
label: date made
content: 1996
name: label: maker
content: Jayaraman, Sundaresan
notes: label: Description
content: A sample of the unfinished base for the sleeveless tee-style shirt used in the "smart shirt" or "wearable motherboard", developed at the Georgia Institute of Texhnology, School of Textile and Fiber Engineering, in co-operation with the Dept. of the Navy, in the 1990s. Woven with cotton, synthetic fibers, and fiber optics. Finished shirt can be used for monitoring vital signs of the wearer. The fiber optic yarn was woven throughout the shirt, which was woven without seams so the fiber optic yarn would continuous, as a means of monitoring or pinpointing blood flow from bullet or other wounds for military wearers. This would enable quicker triage of injured personnel. Two patents were issued covering the Smart Shirt technology: No. 6,145,551 and 6,381,482. Issued to Georgia Tech. Bears the Georgia Tech seal on the left side; 2" fringe at bottom left.
label: Description
content: The research team was led by Dr. Sundaresen Jayaraman. Dr. Sungmee Park was the engineer who worked out the weaving technology with the Textile Engineering Dept. at Georgia Tech. Dr. Park's mother helped her warp the loom.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Home and Community Life: Textiles
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Dr. Sundaresan Jayaraman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2002.0245.01
label: accession number
content: 2002.0245
objectType: label: Object Name
content: shirt
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 23 1/2 in x 22 in; 59.69 cm x 55.88 cm