{"id":207569,"date":"2025-03-01T19:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/move-over-smart-rings-mits-new-fabric-computer-is-stitched-into-your-clothes"},"modified":"2025-03-01T19:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T01:09:19","slug":"move-over-smart-rings-mits-new-fabric-computer-is-stitched-into-your-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/move-over-smart-rings-mits-new-fabric-computer-is-stitched-into-your-clothes","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Smart Rings. MIT\u2019s New Fabric Computer Is Stitched Into Your Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/move-over-smart-rings-mits-new-fabric-computer-is-stitched-into-your-clothes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s what prompted MIT engineers to create a fabric computer that can be stitched into regular clothes. The device features sensors, processors, memory, batteries, and both optical and Bluetooth communications, allowing networks of these fibers to provide sophisticated whole-body monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur bodies broadcast gigabytes of data through the skin every second in the form of heat, sound, biochemicals, electrical potentials, and light, all of which carry information about our activities, emotions, and health,\u201d MIT professor Yoel Fink, who led the research, said in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mit.edu\/2025\/fiber-computer-allows-apparel-to-run-apps-and-understand-wearer-0226\">a press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be great if we could teach clothes to capture, analyze, store, and communicate this important information in the form of valuable health and activity insights?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That\u2019s what prompted MIT engineers to create a fabric computer that can be stitched into regular clothes. The device features sensors, processors, memory, batteries, and both optical and Bluetooth communications, allowing networks of these fibers to provide sophisticated whole-body monitoring. \u201cOur bodies broadcast gigabytes of data through the skin every second in the form of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207569","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}