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MIT and Rhode Island School of Design Collaborate to Develop Fabric That 'Hears' Your Heartbeat
March 17, 2022
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, March 17 (TNSPar) -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following news release:

Having trouble hearing? Just turn up your shirt. That's the idea behind a new "acoustic fabric" developed by engineers at MIT and collaborators at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

The team has designed a fabric that works like a microphone, converting sound first into mechanical vibrations, then into electrical signals, similarly to how our . . .

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