Smart
Clothes are Coming of Age
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New Frontiers for Radiation Detection?
by: Steve Waldrop
June 24, 2002
For
many years we have heard of the coming era of "Smart Clothes."
Visit some of the links at the end of this article for more information
and a tour of this fascinating technology that is now coming of age. Computer
Geeks have led the way but the Military and medical fields will be the
main beneficiary of the future in intelligent textiles. Georgia Tech and
Stanford lead in this technology.
We
believe this technology offers a unique chance to allow new levels of
radiation detection especially in the fight against terrorists or the
military use of radioactive materials for either nuclear weapons or Dirty
Bombs. If we incorporated a series of radiation detectors in the textiles,
we could have wearable detectors for public safety personnel. This would
allow us to have very efficient detections of weapons or caches of radioactive
materials
For
more information on Smart Clothes, be sure to check out the following
websites:
International
Symposium on Wearable Computers
Georgia Tech Wearable Motherboard
Smart
Clothing
International Centre of
Excellence for Wearable Electronics and Fashion Products
Smart
Clothes: by Juha Kaario, Research Manager, Wearable Computing, Nokia Research
Center
Computer
Ready- to- wear
Smart Clothes: The MIT
Wearable Computing Web Page
Announcement/Call
for Participation- Workshop on Wearable Computer Systems
Reindeer
Herders Turn to Smart Clothes
ElekTex- A
Soft New World
Heeding
Your Wardrobe
American Institute
of Physics- Smart Clothes
Dispatch-
Smart Clothes
University
Of Massachusetts- Amherst: Smart Rooms, Smart Clothes- to be topic of
Computer Science Lecture
Pictures courtsey
of Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Textile and Fiber Engineering
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