Researchers at Don State Technical University have proposed the concept of a smart heating jacket that can be converted into a sleeping bag. The developed clothing model works on the principle of preventing hypothermia.
The press service of the university stated that this substance works to warm certain areas of the body even before a person feels discomfort.
The thermal state of a person is regulated by many external and internal factors. A person is not always able to track the change in the temperature of individual parts of the body. Therefore, sometimes he does not take all the necessary measures to protect himself from hypothermia.
There are currently available in the market some types of clothes that contain heating systems that enable anyone to turn them on or off manually depending on the degree of our feeling of cold, but they have defects and limitations in use.
In addition, according to the researchers, the function of these garments requires constant monitoring and is not currently used in every possible situation, for example, during sleep.