Futuristic Fashion Gets Smart
October 27, 2008 | Levent OZLER
Is that your dress ringing? It could be, if you're wearing an M-Dress - a silk garment that doubles as a mobile phone.
Produced by UK firm CuteCircuit, the M-Dress works with a standard SIM card.
When the dress rings, you raise your hand to your head to answer the call.
This futuristic fusion of fashion and technology is becoming more common as clothes designers are increasingly incorporating electronics into their garments.
Jane McCann, Director of Smart Clothes and Wearable Technology at the University of Wales, says the clothing and electronics industries are collaborating in an unprecedented way - what she describes as "a new industrial revolution."
McCann predicts that in the next 10 years clothes will have all kinds of in-built functionality.
more: edition.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/24/future.fas (355)
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