Science fiction counts on certain facts, one of those is wearable technology. Clothes that change color to match the wearer’s surroundings, external health monitors à la Starship Troopers, and even full body computers like the ones sported by gargoyles in Snow Crash. All of these presume that we can in fact wear technology. Well, today we mortals are one step closer to that reality as scientists at the University of Illinois have invented a fabric made up of 500 micron wide chain-mail links capable of transmitting electrical signals across its surface. Brilliant!
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A link to the “University of Illinois homepage”:http://www.uiuc.edu and “another”:http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn11220-microscopic-chainmail-could-link-wearable-gadgets.html to a New Scientist article about the discovery.