{"id":132518,"date":"2021-12-16T11:44:44","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/what-is-smart-clothing-technology-and-how-does-it-work"},"modified":"2021-12-16T11:44:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T19:44:44","slug":"what-is-smart-clothing-technology-and-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/what-is-smart-clothing-technology-and-how-does-it-work","title":{"rendered":"What is Smart Clothing Technology and How Does it Work?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LocoDawNIns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the most amazing advancements in fabric technology and smart fabrics.<\/p>\n<p><b> Chain mail-based fabric for smart exoskeletons<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Hauberks, or chain mail shirts, were used in the Middle Ages, but they\u2019ve certainly gone out of style, right?<\/p>\n<p>Wrong. They\u2019ve only transformed into something else. In 2021, engineers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore created a chain mail-like material that goes from soft to stiff on command, <a class=\"\" data-id=\"embedded internal links\" data-type=\"link\" data-url=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/chain-mail-inspired-fabric-supports-50-times-its-own-weight\" href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/chain-mail-inspired-fabric-supports-50-times-its-own-weight\" rel=\"dofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> bearing a load of 50 times its own weight<\/a> when rigid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of the most amazing advancements in fabric technology and smart fabrics. Chain mail-based fabric for smart exoskeletons Hauberks, or chain mail shirts, were used in the Middle Ages, but they\u2019ve certainly gone out of style, right? Wrong. They\u2019ve only transformed into something else. In 2021, engineers at the California Institute of Technology [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}