It's intuitively obvious that wearables will require flexible circuits; The human body, after all, moves and consists of curves; boxes are not fashionable. Xerox is positioning itself as an expert in all things printing, and has gotten itself interested in the printing of electronic circuitry on flexible substrate. Another strategy might be to make the rigid circuitry very … [Read more...]
Clothes that change color
How about a line of clothing that has LEDs built between layers of fabric, all of it controllable from an app or responding to things like ambient temperature, your mood as indicated by your Twitter feed or the beats of music at a club? New Scientist reports that just such clothes were shown last week at the International Symposium on Wearable Computers in Zurich. The line, … [Read more...]