Capturing body energy as DC to run the smart clothing circuits, capturing even more & better quality biodata for enhanced health & fitness tracking, VR Gear will help sell smart fabric & smart gloves & smart suits with tactile feedback so that you can be touched & touch others & AI agents in META artificial virtual reality environments.
Carbon & nano particles, capacitors & batteries & computer weaved as threads into common garments as smart clothing, you can see it coming, it follows the smart watches & smart rings already available today, & been featured in Sci-fi content for many years, I am thinking of Kira Cameron from Continuum in 2077 as an example!
Super fine copper, silver, gold, aluminum, stainless steel & other alloy wire fibers, that can be weaved into fabrics just like cotton. Carbon fibers are also conductive & can be use to integrate wifi & bluetooth into shirts & pants, underwear, scarfs, shoes, hats, gloves, mittens, & other garments.
There are a number of companies working in the smart clothing space now, and you can read about this & see examples of some existing & upcoming products. Note, these early smart clothes are limited to snap on compute battery modules & are mostly first generation products, many of which require hand washing or dry cleaning & cannot be washed in a clothing washer & dried in a clothes dryer machine.
See https://thevou.com/fashion/smart-clothing/ <- web link to article about 15 existing smart clothes
Furthermore, wearables like Garmin trackers, Fitbit bracelets, Apple Watches & Samsung gear already offer a host of reliable biodata tracking features & functions, with fitness coaching, heart rate, breathing rape, pulse oximetry, EKG, movement & activity tracking, exercise tracking, fitness tracking, sleep tracking, sleep reminders, stand up reminders, calorie tracking, all using blinking LED on the back of the smart watch that sit right up against the users wrist skin, imaging sensor read how those light pulses are reflected & then using cleaver software techniques converts that information into all the different biodata channels previously mentioned.
For smart clothing to sell well, they must pair with Apple Watch & Samsung Gear, Garmin Fitness & Fitbit Trackers & other popular Google Wear devices. These highly popular smart watches are trending & selling by the tens of millions now. Existing smart watches pair forming an ecosystem with peoples smartphones. Body web means that all these on personal digital compute elements must work together to share streams of biodata, the assembly of which produces a more detailed imaging of the wearers physiology, activity, biorhythms, health date the next big application in medicine with digital medical records paired with health data from smart watches & smartphones, so that a physician with only 10 minutes to interact with the patient can still given edifying useful suggestions to make better informed health decisions about patient care, improving patient wellness, improve patient health, improving patient outcomes & making healthcare better in these & other ways I am only beginning to imagine.
Smart clothing will enable additional channels of biodata to be collected by smartwatches & smartphones for health tracking or biological rhythm tracking, sweat analysis, body moisture, enhance precision respiration or breathing rate measurement, blood glucose levels, apocrine functionality, hydration level, enhance sleep tracking, better electrophysiology measurement, even brain wave detection, EKG measurement of heart function, enhanced analysis of body fat, body water, muscle mass, bone density, & other biodata that is hard to obtain with LED's pulses shined into the wrist by common smartwatches like the Apple Watch or Samsung Gear models very popular today' with some of the aforementioned features & functions.
Health data & greatly enhanced fitness tracking will sell smart fabric by Nike + Apple Fabric or similar from Microsoft or Google / Alphabet / but enhanced VR experiences from META via Facebook, giving using tactile feedback, touch, feelings, the smart garments, smart suits, smart gloves, smart headwear, smart pants, smart shirts, all the smart clothing will be offered as VR Gear, but in other versions sold as premium fitness & health tracking options that pair with your smartwatch & smartphone & app platforms therein.
Body energy capture with conductive fabrics made with metal nano particles embedded into common fiber tread materials like the common polymers used to make popular clothing fabrics like Goretex today. Body battery fabrics will take the corrosive conductive chloride sweat & use it with carbon fibers & insulating sweat saturated layers, to make DC current in the fabric that powers the integrated flexible circuits, analog conductive fiber antenna, the small fiber controller modules & other information technology that can be stitched into the the cuff, collar, waist, into the tailored edges of garments where there is a little more space for capacitors or batteries. Simple capacitors can be made into the fabrics by using electrostatic energy storage between conductive & non conductive fibers, weaved together to make an electrical conductor sandwich around a non conductive insulator filler, intrinsically & highly flexible.
Thinner conductors suffer from high resistance, so bundles of conductive fibers can be used to move more current farther in the smart clothing. Remember that fabric & clothing are already examples of applied technology, so integrating wireless networking, energy storage, energy production, information processing & flexible compute with conductive fibers & conductive thread, just an extension of blending existing technologies into smart fabric, smart materials, to make smart clothing the next big platform after smartwatches. You can see & imagine & understand that information jewelry like the Aura ring is already on its 3rd generation. Apple watches have improved dramatically with each new generation, the Apple Watch Ultra the $800 flagship as of late 2022~
Expect smart clothing to carry a price premium. The best onesies smart suits or super suits that offer the most functions will be correspondingly expensive. I am very curious how they will solve the machine washing & hot drying in domestic washer & dryer machines, but imagine that some of these first product will be dry cleaning only or hand wash & hang dry to enhance life, as machine washing can shorten the useful life of the smart fabric.
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