Computing will only be truly "wearable" when it finally disappears into the fabric of everyday life.
It is perhaps safe to say that the majority of society will always wear clothing. Textiles are one of the earliest technologies, serving many functions: affording protection from the environment, defining the wearer's identity, and providing places to carry objects.
But the electronic gear that makes this information revolution possible still takes an awkward form. It's not truly wearable except in the sense that it will fit in your pocket or strap onto your body. The goal of this work is to integrate technology directly into clothing by replacing circuit boards with fabric circuitry and packaging components for assembly into fabric circuits.
Conductive fabric circuits
Fabric-based sensors
Integrated MIDI interface
Washable electronics design
Conductive thread techniques
Component integration methods
Robust connection systems
Durability considerations
Early demonstration of fabric-integrated electronics
Novel approach to wearable musical interfaces
Development of washable electronics techniques
Influence on subsequent e-textile projects
Wearable Computing - Foundation for wearable interfaces
Sp4rkl3 - Later work in interactive textiles