Wearable touchscreen weaves its way into your garment fabric
Screens have become indispensable in most of our daily lives. We have them on phones, billboards, tiny wearables, coffee makers, toilets, and everywhere else. Scientists have now figured out a way to integrate them into the very fabric of clothes.
Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have found a way to turn ordinary-looking fabric into an interactive display screen.
We're not talking about a screen embedded in a shirt; the fabric itself is the screen. It can play videos, display notifications, measure your body temperature, and respond when you touch it! The enabling technology is a special, pressure-sensitive electronic fiber containing miniature LED chips, electrical connections, and a touch-sensitive layer. Each fiber is about 1 mm thick and 10 meters (32.8 ft) long.
For the demonstration, the researchers incorporated 54 of these fibers into the forearm of a sleeve. Each fiber contains 96 LEDs, resulting in a...
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