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Embroidering electronics into the next generation of 'smart' fabrics

  • Written by Asimina Kiourti, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University
Is this machine adding an antenna to the fabric?Hindrik Johannes de Groot/Shutterstock.com

Archaeology reveals that humans started wearing clothes some 170,000 years ago, very close to the second-to-last ice age. Even now, though, most modern humans wear clothes that are only barely different from those earliest garments. But that’s about to...

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