Clothing as speakers and microphones

MIT researchers are developing a new textile fiber that can "hear" and produce sound. They've published their latest breakthroughs in the scientific journal Nature Materials. From MIT News:
 Newsoffice  Images Article Images 20100715121110-1 Applications could include clothes that are themselves sensitive microphones, for capturing speech or monitoring bodily functions, and tiny filaments that could measure blood flow in capillaries or pressure in the brain...



"Fibers that can hear and sing"


  1. This shall transform dance parties. Motion sensors connected to synthesizers sending audio signals to the clothing you’re wearing. Modulate yourself!

  2. “If you connected them to a power supply and applied a sinusoidal current” â€” an alternating current whose period is very regular â€” “then it would vibrate.

    Finally…my vibrating pants dream edges closer.

  3. This is a disaster! If your clothes could record sounds it would put iFart completely out of business.

  4. Seems to me this means that the era of sweeping someone for bugs before letting them know your secrets will soon be over.

    How will anyone find bugs when they could be filaments of your clothing, strands in your hair, or wrapped up inside your own tooth?

    1. Never mind all that, I want underpants that play Gabber.

      I had a pair like that, but then I broke down and finally washed them.

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