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“Dream Weavers” “Dream Weavers” is the perfect term for the vision of combining medical and computer technology with textiles and fabric. Currently, researchers are working on fabric and clothes that hide sensors, conductive fibers and transmitters that can monitor heartbeat, body temperature, blood oxygen, and respiration. This technology can be incorporated into any fabric or blends without effecting the look or feel of the fabric that it is replacing. It incorporates advances in textile engineering, wearable computers, and wireless transfer of data to permit the easy and comfortable collection, transmission, and analysis of personal health and lifestyle data. When incorporated into the design of clothing, this technology can quietly perform an EKG, monitor the wearer's heart rate, respiration, temperature and a host of other vital functions, alerting the wearer or physician if there is a problem. The U.S. Navy’s 21st Century Land Warrior Program originally created this high tech vision in October 1996 and it was further developed by the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency. Various companies are working on ways to put computer electronics directly into the fibers of clothing. Combining computer ele