Smart Fabrics: The Future Trend Of Wearable Devices

The next popular wearable device may be like this: you wear it, but no one else knows you are using it. Experts predict that a large wave of smart fabrics and electronic textiles will replace the popular wearable devices such as Fitbit and Apple Watch in the future.

　　 Wearable Experiments A company that combines fashion and technology, Billy Whitehouse, the company's co founder, said: "as components become smaller, cheaper and more enjoyable, the integration of technology and fashion will become easier. In my view, technology and fashion are gradually being unified. We are moving in a new direction, and all kinds of technology equipment will become invisible. "

In today's market, wearable devices It seems that it is still deliberately emphasizing its existence. Consumer They are also willing to use these devices to flaunt themselves. Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman, an associate professor of industrial design at Pratt Institute, admitted: "what kind of impact will this smart fabric have on our future? I have different views with my colleagues. But we have to admit that this change has begun, but we are not yet fully prepared. "

But this does not mean that no one is working in this direction now. For example, Intimacy, this is a skirt that integrates the heart rate detector, and the Fundawear produced by Wearable Experiments, which is an underwear product equipped with inductors, which can be ranged and teased between husband and wife.

Embedding smart technology into clothing materials will bring a lot of convenience to the wearer. Experts predict that the future "smart clothing" will be able to detect the wearer's health and fitness data, self-cleaning in the sun, provide tactile feedback such as navigation, and even stabilize the wearer's body temperature.

Pailes-Friedman said, "we have just experienced a cold winter. If a thin coat can adjust your body temperature voluntarily and isolate you from the cold, so that you don't need to wear thick clothes when you go out, don't you love this product? I think this is the trend of the future."

Maybe there will be such clothes in the future: you will no longer need to look down at smart phones when you are looking for a road. You only need to look straight ahead. The clothes you wear are stored inside the city map, and there is also a GPS module. When you need to turn left, your left shoulder will vibrate and vice versa. Whitehouse said that such a device will enable people to re find the opportunity to truly understand the world.