Glove promises cool benefit for athletes
Date: Friday, October 25 @ 00:06:20 CDT
Topic: Archive of stories pre April 2007
Stanford University researchers are developing a glove that stops athletes getting tired.
It works by rapidly cooling the internal organs.
Putting it on forms a seal around the wrist which serves to increase blood flow to the hand.
A steel plate inside draws heat from blood circulating through the hand.
The cooled blood flows back to the heart to be re-circulated around the body.
The gadget is being developed by animal psychologists Craig Heller and Dennis Grahn at the Californian university.
The glove - which is called RTX for Rapid Thermal Exchange - has performed well in tests and is attracting attention from outside the sporting sphere.
New Scientist reports that the US Food and Drug Administration has approved its as a means of regulating patients' body temperature.
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