00:00Most of us probably have difficulty getting off our butts to get exercising, but some have it the other way
00:05around.
00:05They don't know when they've had too much, and this might be a way to help those who overtrain and
00:09put themselves at risk of injury avoid that eventuality.
00:13This is Tyler Cuthbert, a postdoc researcher working on the project to explain.
00:17So we sought a way to create clothing that senses your movement and your change of movement, and this was
00:23to give insight into fatigue.
00:26Fatigue is correlated to a higher risk of injury, and there are a few technologies available that allow you to
00:33track fatigue accurately.
00:35And we do this by integrating our sensors and our wireless circuit into clothing.
00:42And they're doing all of that with this, a yarn-based sensor, which can be sewn right into any type
00:47of garment.
00:48And as you move and stretch and exercise, it transmits all of that data to an app, tracking when it
00:52believes you have reached dangerous levels of fatigue,
00:55then prompting you to rest.
00:56The designers say that when people approach higher and higher levels of exhaustion, they are more prone to injury.
01:01And this fabric can detect specific bioindicators of that, assessing those levels much more precisely than, say, a fitness-tracking
01:07wristband.
01:08But they also say it's capable of working beyond exercise, tracking the fatigue of workers or those who are undergoing
01:13physical therapy.
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