Get Ready For Digital Fabric!

Japanese researchers want to create clothes that can sense our touch and process the signals to perform never imagined before things. Japan's National Institute Of Advanced Industrial Science & Technology (AIST) is working on conductive fibers that will redefine the future of clothing and sense technology. The researchers have succeeded in integrating capacitive touch sensors with nylon fibers that are just 1 micron (0.001mm) thick.



The scientists and engineers are aiming to develop fabric in the form of bed-sheets that will primarily be used by bed-ridden patients to monitor their body senses. The fabric was showcased at NanoTech 2011. Check out the video -

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