Google and Levis show smart clothes. It is touch and communicative.

Smart or intelligent clothing is here with us for many years. But Google thinks that that's where it will be possible to assert with him in the market. Thus a project Jacquard. The first products based on it will firm Levi Strauss & Co.

Within this week, the current developer conference Google I / O was introduced as a new project Jacquard , named after the inventor of the programmable loom from the 19th century. 

Clothing from Google will have special fibers (conductive yarn) woven into the fabric that will respond to touch or gesture. The company promises interconnection with miniature electronics that will enable manufacturers to hide such as a knob or seams of clothing.

"We have developed innovative techniques to connect the conductive yarn to the connectors and small integrated circuits, no bigger than a button on his jacket. This miniaturized electronics captures touch interaction. Different gestures can then be derived using automated learning, "states the project's website. 

Thus, anything that was not already there, with the only difference that now that the solution will be available to all. This could mean a significant increase in such modified clothing market. And because it is simple to incorporate into the production process. Besides spools with conventional threads will simply spool with a conductive yarn. The first official partner of this project is the firm Levi Strauss & Co.

"Jacquard an interface that is part of the clothing that we wear. It will affect the way we use the services, products, applications, "says creative technologist of Google Joao Wilbert. 

In practice, it will look as if you touch the sleeve of his jacket, and perhaps you will begin to play music. Slide your finger on the active zone of the clothes up and the sound is amplified. Counts certainly is smart clothes that will be able to detect the physical condition and movements of the owner in order to come up with a timely warning about the need to deteriorating health. 

Indeed, a similar principle we have already seen in 2007 at the company's Pilsen Applycon. She developed the suits allows you to listen to music, talking on the phone, camera control or jackets with solar cells, light sources, GPS antennas and sensors that react to outside stimuli, including targeting laser weapons. 

"Wearable technology or intelligent textiles here nobody does, even today it is exceptional in the world," he had said CEO Applycon Baxa Milan. Applycon began at the turn of 2005/2006 to cooperate with the company Interactive Wear in Munich and produced and snowboard apparel for the company O'Neill. 

In 2006, he passed on to his smart shirt showing off at IFA Philips. While taking advantage of optical fibers. 

Wash and wring 

As with clothes from Applycon, the project envisages Jacquard with a simple worry about clothes so equipped. If they take out the electronic components. Has conductive yarn survive the washing machine. Google is developing this project in the department of ATAP (Advanced Technologies and Projects), which is responsible, for example, even a miniature chip , which uses radar technology can detect the position of the fingers and detect subtle movements.