Most electronic baby monitors work by detecting sound—crying mostly.  But they cannot tell if an infant has stopped breathing, as with Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  Respiration could be monitored with a sensored crib mat if one existed, but meanwhile, the Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration (Berlin, Germany) has created a sensor-imbedded romper.  The device is a polyurethane stretchable circuit board woven into clothing fabric. Another application for this stretchable circuit is in plasters that can be applied to monitor a person’s kidney function.  Wearable monitors of all sorts likely will be forthcoming now that the US FCC has approved a channel specifically for wearable electronic devices.  MORE