IM Blanky, a smart blanket designed by a team at the Responsive Architecture at Daniels (RAD) lab, has been featured in the June 2012 issue of Wired magazine. The blanket, embedded with sensors that could monitor your movement, heart rate, and body temperature, was created by Carol Moukheiber, Christos Marcopoulos, Rodolphe el-Khoury, Valentina Mele, Sebastian Savone, Yi Ping See, Samar Sabie, Dina Sabie, and Jonah Ross-Marrs.

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It is an object with "primitive cognitive capacities," as el-Khoury says, or rudimentary self-awareness. Project collaborator and Daniels assistant professor Christos Marcopoulos (who is working on bathroom tiles that monitor blood pressure) points out that IM Blanky is just as useful as a model for intelligent geotextiles installed on levees and riverbanks as it is in the field of occupational therapy; a blanket wrapped around hospital patients could dutifully report fevers and heart rate. Which makes the IM Blanky remarkably flexible.