Toxic Detecting Glove

Fraunhofer is Europe’s largest applied research organization, with 66 institutes, as well as centers in the US and Asia.  This piece describes its Institute for Modular Solid State Technologies which has created a sensor-imbedded textile that, in the form of a glove, alerts lab workers to toxic substances by turning blue.  Thus far, the gloves can detect carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide, but the concept suggests many other applications and toxins. MORE

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