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Making clothes that can communicate

Is the age of tech fibre really upon us? Professor Yoel Fink from MIT says his team is on the verge of developing true tech clothes that will be able to warn us that a car is approaching. They have been able to weave diodes into fabrics, without losing the natural feel of the material.

(Image: Light emitting diodes into fabric, Credit: Greg Hren/AFFOA.)

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