Even my clothes? Really?
The latest advancement, digital clothes, yeehaw!
“When you put it into a shirt, you can’t feel it at all," says study author Gabriel Loke. “You wouldn’t know it was there."
The scientists demonstrated the functionality of their digital fiber by writing, storing and reading information on it, including a 767-kilobit full-color short movie file and a 0.48-megabyte music file, both of which could be stored for two months without power. They also incorporated a neural network made up of 1,650 connections that brings artificial intelligence into the mix.
The researchers put this version to work by sewing it into the armpit of a shirt, where the digital fiber collected 270 minutes of body temperature data on the wearer. The system could even understand the relationship between the sweat data and different physical activities undertaken by the user and, with some training, was able to determine which activity they were engaging in with 96 percent accuracy.
Fabrics with this kind of functionality could be used for longer-term health monitoring by collecting data on the body to recognize early signs of disease, such as an irregular heartbeat or respiratory decline. The scientists plan to continue improving the fiber and opening up even more possibilities for its use, with the next steps to involve incorporating a microcontroller to replace the external device currently used to control it.
“This work presents the first realization of a fabric with the ability to store and process data digitally, adding a new information content dimension to textiles and allowing fabrics to be programmed literally,” Fink says.
https://newatlas.com/wearables/mits-world-first-digital-fabric-store-process-data/