Smart Shirts Debut at U.S. Open Tennis Tournament

If you want a peek at the future of fitness tech, keep an eye on the ball chasers at this year's U.S. Open tennis tournament, which opens today in Flushing, New York. At select matches, ball boys will be sporting compression shirts embedded with sensors and circuits to relay health information to tournament officials. The smart shirts are woven with a silver-coated, conductive thread and contain an ECG, a breathing sensor, an accelerometer and gyroscope. All of the data are fed into th