A Massachusetts company, Conscious Clothing, has won a $100,000 competition sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency to develop a next-generation personal air monitor. It measures small particle pollutants in the air 1,200 times per second, while also gauging some of your body's response. "I'm very impressed," says Bill Ameredes, associate professor of medicine and director of the Environmental Exposure and Inhalation Health Facility at UTMB, after his first look at the device. With particulate measurements 1,200 times per second, "the accuracy of the data should be quite good" offering the possibility of a "previously unattainable" picture of exposure in real time, Ameredes said. Watch a video about the device here.