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>>>MS: Hello and welcome this video is meant to provide a
brief supplement to the smart fabrics final report document
that is posted on the IPP innovation pond 2010 website.
What is smart fabric? For the purposes of this report we've
defined smart fabric as traditional fabric with
integrated action functionality. This could
include power generation, energy storage, human
interface elements, sensing devices, RF functionality,
or integrated circuits. The examples shown here as
a glove with integrating conductive and resistive
elements that allow to be used as a control input device.
This dress currently on display at the Museum of Science
and Industry in Chicago uses conductive fibers to connect
24,000 full color LEDs into a comfortable wearable dress.
The basic building blocks of smart fabrics are traditional
textiles conducted the arms, semi-conducting, and low
resistance woven fabrics. These elements can be combined
using traditional manufacturing techniques with some additional
labor into active devices. The simple example here uses
those basic elements to add pressure sensing patches to
an otherwise ordinary swash of cotton. The patches can be
used as push buttons though the pressure
sensitive properties suggest additional uses.
Because it's fabric it can be handled like fabric.
It can be folded.
It can be wadded or otherwise mechanically abused.
And it can even be worn.
Through all of this it retains its extra functionality.
The future of smart fabric technology holds great promise
as related fields advance. Flexible silicone sub-straights
will soon allow semiconductors to be integrated directly
onto fabrics. [Inaud.] electric fibers will allow textiles to
act as speakers and microphones. Urban-nano-tube inks, dyes,
and films will allow energy storage in advanced sensing
applications. The smart fabric technology will also be useful
in many NASA missions. For example technology can be
used for lighting, controls, and sensing in inflatable
spacecraft modules. It can enable comfortable,
reliable and unobtrusive biomonitoring for crew members
on long duration missions. Technology also has a potential
to vastly improve human computer interfaces both
inside and outside space crafts through improved
wearable controls, haptic feedback,
physio-electric interfaces, and wearable displays.
Thank you for your attention, questions regarding smart
fabric technology maybe directed to the
contact solicited at the end of the credits.