We have come across many unique designs and products created solely to aid medical patients. The heart monitoring vest project is one such endeavor by George Brown College’s Fashion Techniques and Design program and Canadian company Ocorant Inc. The two have teamed up on a multidisciplinary project to create a wearable medical device. The Canadian company has developed a new type of heart monitoring system and it is the goal of the George Brown to design a vest to house the electronics of this new device. The team has designed various prototype models of the vest. Angella Mackey, a research assistant on the project, has particularly worked on the interaction design of the vest so that a patient will be able to wear the vest at home and be able to place the six electrodes on their chest without the help of a nurse.

Samples of her prototypes were also exhibited at the OCAD professional gallery for the show Fashion Forward. Definitely amazing, when developed, these vests will definitely benefit heart patients a great deal.
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Topics: Gadgets Tags: on March 31, 2010

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