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Thursday, 6 September 2007

Smart clothing (for real this time)



My disappointment about the news item on not-very-smart clothing from last month has been allayed somewhat by this feature from The Engineer, which reports on shirts that monitor heart activity, jackets that reflect up to 97% of radiated heat (ideal when stuck on the Tube this time of year) and a Yorkshire firm's quantum tunnelling composites technology, wherein metal-filled polymers are transformed from a virtually perfect insulator to metal-like conductor when deformed through twisting, stretching or compression, enabling the material to be used in a number of switching and sensing applications, such as controlling your iPod.
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