Google has shown a "smart" fabric - Jacquard Project.

Google ATAP, responsible for innovative design, such as, for example, a modular smartphone Ara, presented another interesting project - Jacquard Project.

Jacquard (jacquard) from Google is a special fabric, which in addition to the usual fibers contains a special thread-guides. They are intertwined in a single unit on a special machine, and then the resulting material can be used, for example, to control various gadgets. the



At the conference Google I/O developers showed how this fabric can be used to activate the light and control the media player. With devices the fabric interacts with the low-power Wi-Fi signal.

To unfortunately, pants or a jacket with built-in Wi-Fi is not yet ready for mass production - developers need to solve the problem of integration of additional electronics needed to supply tissues and interaction with other gadgets. But when this issue will be resolved, sales are likely to appear wear, light touch which can be used to answer a call or to switch the track in the player. the

See also: Project Fi: how Google is trying to become a mobile operator.