Posted on 07/12/2010 4:38:44 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
NEW YORK (AFP) – This could give a whole new meaning to the phrase power dressing. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have created a cloth that can hear and emit noise.
The team, led by MIT professor Yoel Fink, has reached "a new milestone on the path to functional fibers: fibers that can detect and produce sound," MIT said in a statement.
The development, described in the August issue of Nature Materials, transforms the usual passive nature of textiles into a virtually all-singing, all-dancing version.
According to MIT, "applications could include clothes that are themselves sensitive microphones, for capturing speech or monitoring bodily functions, and tiny filaments that could measure blood flow in capillaries or pressure in the brain."
The decade-old research project aims to "develop fibers with ever more sophisticated properties, to enable fabrics that can interact with their environment," MIT said.
The new space-age cloth, it said, can not only listen, but make sound.
"You can actually hear them, these fibers," Noemie Chocat, part of the lab team, said.
"If you connected them to a power supply and applied a sinusoidal current, then it would vibrate. And if you make it vibrate at audible frequencies and put it close to your ear, you could actually hear different notes or sounds coming out of it."
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The possibilities .. Unlimited..
“That wasn’t me, my pants made that noise, I swear!”
‘’..fabrics that can interact with their environment,”
and play ‘I feeel pretty’ or sumthin’ to you softly in the background..
Imagine that.
Now this has potential...
Spell Checker is my Friend...
Weave got to get some of this.
I don’t cotton to it meself...
Want to hear my underwear talk?
Your lingerie sounds horny!
If only they’d developed that around 1996, Monica would have had a singing, dancing, stained blue dress. With that kind of evidence, Billy Jeff would have been impeached, removed, and jailed.
The fink is a king!
LOL
I rayon to the store when I read about this.
You know what this means, no more cone of silence, future top secret meetings may have naked spies.
Sounds like something Comrade Linen would have tried.
I’m pretty sure this entire study was fabricated.
Made up out of whole cloth.
Well ain’t this just effing great - yet another invention that the Orwellian goons running the show could use to spy on us.
Haha!
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