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Heat injuries forcing new technologies

By Matt Winklejohn
Special to ESPN.com

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Before Jay Buckalew got into the business of inventing an in-helmet temperature sensor that might help high school athletic trainers detect whether football players are overheating, he overheated himself. In 2004, Buckalew was working on a telecommunications project on the rooftop of a 20-story building in Puerto Rico. "I nearly had heat stroke. I had a hard hat on with little or no ventilation, and I became dehydrated. I started wondering what could be done," said Buckalew, the founder of Hot ...

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