The Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 7) -- Athletes can wear headgear equipped with mobile sensors that measure and report impacts – data that could raise crucial flags about potential concussions from hard hits in football, hockey or other sports. Reebok offers the technology in the $150 CheckLight, created in partnership with MC10 Inc., of Cambridge, Mass. Reebok and MC10 – the latter founded by a U. of I. materials scientist, John Rogers, who invented a stretchable circuit – won one of the Consumer Electronics Association’s Innovations 2014 awards for design and engineering. Also: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (Jan. 8).
Concussion monitor
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