International Space Station astronauts use wearable technology to monitor vital signs

Wearable technology - ISS and shuttle

The ISS team wears a shirt and a dedicated tablet app to track their wellness and wellbeing. The team of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is using wearable technology in the form of the Bio-Monitor, an all-in-one tech using a special shirt and dedicated tablet app. The gadget makes it possible to monitor astronaut health while enabling new science. By continuously monitoring astronaut physiological data with the wearable technology, researchers can learn a substantial amount of new information. This is beneficial because conventional medical science and monitoring on…

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Brain.Space EEG helmet heading to International Space Station

Brain.Space - International Space Station

The wearable technology will test the way neurological changes happen in low Earth orbit. Brain.Space, an Israeli tech start-up, has developed a helmet that will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) to measure the neurological impact of being in low Earth orbit. The helmet will be tested in the ISS’ US segment once the Axiom-1 private astronauts are aboard. The Axiom-1 astronauts are slated to stay on the ISS for a 10-day mission. The Brain.Space helmet will be one of a total of thirty experiments that will be…

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