The computer giant works to the manufacture of clothing connected. These control remote objects.
The internet giant Google has announced work on the manufacture of clothing connected, for ordering remote objects through a special fabric sensitive to touch. The “Jacquard Project”, named after the famous French inventor of a loom, was unveiled late Friday at the annual conference of Google with developers in San Francisco, as well as a first partnership in this area with the American jeans manufacturer Levi Strauss.
These “interactive textiles” are made by mixing conductive son to the usual clothing materials during weaving, and on the entire garment or only part . The son may be visible or invisible, depending on the aesthetic choice of the designer. “It is stretchable, it is washable,” said Emre Karagozler, the project manager at Google, “like any fabric.” People on the demonstration area controlled lights and computer screens simply by tapping a piece of blue cloth on a table.
According to Google, the project would make possible Jacquard weave material drivers in any textile using looms standards, industrial. Anything with cloth, costumes dresses, tablecloths of carpets, may soon offer the ability to control remote objects by tactile contact. The son conductors are connected to small electronic circuits, no bigger than a jacket button, the algorithms can differentiate a tap or swipe of the finger, according to Google. The data can then be uploaded to smartphones or other objects, making it possible to make phone calls or send messages, not touching wood … but the fabric.
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