In the future, your T-shirt could help keep tabs on your health

ZTE's YouCare project has created a textile technology that can remotely monitor the wearer's health thanks to the 5G network. — ZTE/dpa

In the future, your T-shirt could let you know about your breathing patterns or send a warning if your temperature is too high.

Revealed at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the YouCare project aims to do just that with a textile technology that involves small, imperceptible sensors set in fabric that can remotely monitor the wearer's health in real time with speed of the 5G network.