17-year-old makes color changing sutures that detect infection #WearableWednesday #Health

Dasia Taylor wanted to create smart sutures for communities in need, so she did! Awesome story of a brilliant student on PBS News Hour:

I came up with color-changing stitches that provide early detection for infections, with the specific focus on surgical site infections in developing countries, because those can be very deadly if they’re found too late.

See more!

---

Every Wednesday is Wearable Wednesday here at Adafruit! We’re bringing you the blinkiest, most fashionable, innovative, and useful wearables from around the web and in our own original projects featuring our wearable Arduino-compatible platform, FLORA. Be sure to post up your wearables projects in the forums or send us a link and you might be featured here on Wearable Wednesday!

from Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers! https://ift.tt/3CFvEKy
via IFTTT