
"The Smart Shirt is manufactured by sensatex, but was developed by theGeorgia institude ofTechnology and originally funded by the US military's 21st Century Land Warrior Program and the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency Bowie 2000. The shirt contains sensors that can be used to monitor vital signs such as heart rate, EKG, respiration, and blood pressure Tollen 2001." as said in wikipedia.
The smart shirt is a perfect solution for athletics because it can tell there heart rate, there respiration rate, body temperature, caloric burn, and provides via a wristwatch, and a PDA/smart phone.
If someone came up to me and asked me if i earned to wear one i would say yes because if i get really sick won't need to call an ambulance they will just come to me. Also because they won't need to ask me anything about my record because it will just tell them so that is why i would like to wear a smart shirt.