Google cross-line clothing industry tells you what is smart fabric

谷歌跨行服装行业 告诉你什么是智能织物

After the smart wearable, what is the next "smart XX"? Google tells you that the answer may be smart fabric. Google recently announced that it will work with Levis to advance the ProjectJacquard project. This black technology, which was overlooked by many people at this year's I/O conference, is now trying to put real smart interaction into our denim jacket.

In fact, the concept of "smart fabric" is no stranger. As early as 2014, RalphLauren launched a smart sports t-shirt called PoloTechShirt at the US Open.

Specifically, the PoloTechShirt looks really tall: silver threads are used in the fabric to allow the sensor to collect data in real time as the athletes exercise. However, compared to the "smart" of the clothes itself, the core of the PoloTechShirt is "outside" - a box for the T-shirt, which contains an accelerometer, a gyroscope and a heart monitor, and the clothes are cleaned each time. I need to take it out.

Despite some opportunistic tricks, the emergence of PoloTechShirt is enough for ordinary consumers to see the concept of smart fabrics. Then, in 2015, Disney and StudioXO teamed up with Richard Nicoll to put the LED on the T-stage, making it possible for the "Little Fairy to shine" clothes. Similar to the luminaires designed by CuteCircuit - not only to illuminate, but also to display Twitter notifications via Bluetooth, and even to Bluetooth. But all this is the external intelligence, not the intelligence of the knit material itself. Turn . In such a big context, Google ProjectJacquard came into being.

As the technical project leader for Google's ATAP division, Ivan Poupyrev has focused on UI design and interactive technology for many years, while Paul Dillinger, global product innovation director at Levis, is interested in the combination of smart fabrics and technology. They want to launch a true smart jacket in 2017 – smart starting with textile fabrics. In other words, the ProjectJacquard project has to combine conductive fibers and textile raw materials, so that when manufacturing clothes, manufacturers can weave these “same-like” conductive fibers together like cotton, hemp and wool. And coloring... And wearing the clothes it makes, you can manipulate the electronic devices by touching and tapping, such as playing music and answering calls.

Yes, the smart fabric that Google wants is a real piece of cloth. It can be washed and worn often. This is the real clothes. So why is Google?

智能织物

"The person who invented the technology is not necessarily the one who uses the technology," said Paul Dillinger. Levis chose to work with Google not because he couldn't get involved in the field. "It doesn't mean you can do it... do what you do best, This is the key to success." In this regard, IvanPoupyrev's views are quite similar: "We don't want to make our own clothes. What we want to do is help the industry to produce clothes."

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