A Fabric That Can Detect Human Blood!
Nov 19, 2008 1654 hrs IST
Monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids, or keep track of your local environment with clothes
Nov 19, 2008 1654 hrs IST
Monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids, or keep track of your local environment with clothes
That's correct... if you thought Amitabh's amazing "bulb laden" costume in Yaarana was a technological wonder, you've heard nothing. The concept of "intelligent" fabrics is an old wives tale now. This field has had several advances in the not too recent past with attempts by many to introduce smartwear into the mainstream market with features like auto-temperature regulation, wearable keyboards, and even fiberoptic clothing, an advanced version of the Yaarana gimmick, where you actually light up the room you enter!
Most of these techniques were based on the "old" way of integrating sensors, wires, and circuits into a normal fabric. This is the bane of such "wearable computers," and resulted in their easy damage and their heavy maintenance. There is also loss of comfort, an all important factor, owing to the added weight and inflexibility.
With a lesson well learnt, scientists concentrated more on the comfort and unobtrusiveness of the fabric, and worked on developing the technology. They redesigned the fabric and integrated sensors within the material, instead of retrofitting the fabric with sensors after manufacture.
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