Google has announced that they are working with Us iconic brand of jeans Levis Strauss to make clothes from fabric woven with special touch control capabilities.
The project name was jacquard. It named after a Frenchman,who invented a type of loom. This project is in the small hands of Google team called Advanced Technology and Projects( ATAP). Which is different from the Google lab (x),that develops a big vision innovations like self driving cars( Google's been researching on it).
"We would like to make interactive clothes" said officials. For the they have chosen loom.
They said that they did it by weaving conductive threads into fabric.
Special threads can be made by wide array of fabrics,and be made to visually stand out. It can be noticed.
Conductivity can be spread entire cloth or limited to be desired.
It can be stretchable and washable. people can control lights or computer screens with finger stroke on blue cloth covering a table in the display area behind him.
It is said that It was just like normal fabric.
ATAP said that they connected conductive yarn to the clothes with very small circuits.It was not bigger than jacket buttons. Miniaturised electronics (ICs) can be used to made it these circuits recognise touches and movements.
The data can be sent wirelessly to smartphone s and other devices,and enables actions such as making phone calls and sending messages with fabric brushes.
People are struggling to present in work environment while maintaining a digital connections.
