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International Space Station astronauts use wearable technology to monitor vital signs

10/03/202310/02/2023 Julie Campbell

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…

Google Glass is headed to the International Space Station today

12/16/201412/13/2014 John Montgallo

International Space Station Google Glass

These augmented reality wearable technology devices have received mixed reviews on Earth, now they will try space. Among the latest technology news regarding Google Glass is the fact that it is being blasted into space today, sending it to the International Space Station as a part of a broader mission starting in the Kennedy Space Center located in Florida. The purpose of the mission involves the study of certain functions of flatworms within the outer space environment. Kentucky Space, a nonprofit organization, is taking part in a mission as a…