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E-textiles, also known as smart garments, smart clothing, electronic textiles, smart textiles, or smart fabrics, are fabrics that enable digital components (including small computers), and electronics to be embedded in them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-textiles
Why do people put any stock in this BS? Since when do these modern hi-tech designers ever 'get it right', provide actual progress, or make a genuine forward contribution? There's labs out there where armies of researcher spent their careers trying to make things like watermelon-flavored potato chips and how to add flat-screen TVs to the arm-rests of SUVs. And now this mania for labeling everything 'smart'. 'Smart products'... for a population less astute than farm animals! I challenge you to approach any teenager you know and ask them this week, "what country did America revolt from in the 1700s?" They won't get the answer correct!
'Smart' = useless
Using your own brain at all times, is the smartest fashion move you can adopt.The more that this country's dingbats are steered to 'smart' junk, the less they see the urgency to THINK FOR THEMSELVES
This is why you get people driving off clifftops because 'their GPS told them it was okay'
That happened to a friend of mine who looked at google maps instead of the road
I hear ya pal. I see this kind of thing all the time in my industry. Designers come up with stuff which 'seems to improve a commonly-encountered situation' ...but they over-focus on their solution.
They give folks a complicated means of applying their gee-whiz solution but deliberately neglect all the other ways a solution might still have to be reached.
For instance: 'hey here's our new smart-fabric...it keeps you warm in freezing temperatures if you wear it under this, over that, in combo with this other ..but oh yeah just don't get it wet because when it dries it behaves unlike any other fabric and in that case it can kill you. Hear us correctly? Don't wear this thinking its just the same as the wool and cotton you grew up, okay? Now, isn't it great that our fabric is warmer than you've ever felt? Just read the instruction manual, you'll eventually get the hang of it..."
Umm, remember.... people are numbskulls. They're not as smart as you are, Mr. Designer. Don't give them something 'new' which isn't as least as 'foolproof' as what they've already mastered.
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Like most inventions, something good or something bad can come out of smart fabrics, I think Ila.
Would be useful, and maybe life-saving in some instances, for people to be able to control their body heat.
But yeah, it is a technology that could certainly be misused given a big percentage of the public will probably be wearing such fabrics in future...