Wired textiles for a phone as useful as the shirt on your back
October 25, 2011 | Source: New York Times
The director of the ElectroScience Laboratory at Ohio State University is trying to end the need for cellphone hardware like the Bluetooth earpiece by fabricating communication devices out of something that most states require we carry with us all the time anyway: clothing.
His effort is part of a broad technological effort to make “smart textiles”: wearable fabrics with embedded electronics that can collect, store, send and receive information.