This year’s rain is creating problems for many cotton producers in the Texas Panhandle. The weather this year has brought more rain and when there’s too much rain in consecutive days it can damage cotton crops.
“Everything that can go wrong with too much rain has gone wrong,” said Jerrell Key, General Manager of Adobe Walls Gin LP.
Eurecat, the Technological Centre of Catalonia, in Mataró, Spain, is at the forefront of smart textile innovation has created a T-shirt with sensors that monitor heart-rate, temperature, breathing or sweating and determine if, or when, they are suffering stress.
It can be useful for bus or lorry drivers with long working hours, people who require a high levels of concentration or spend many hours sitting in front of the computer. This shirt, which sends data to a mobile phone, is just one way that smart clothing can make our world safer, more efficient and more fun.
