{"id":245849,"date":"2026-10-23T01:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/researchers-thread-the-worlds-first-touchscreen-into-a-garment"},"modified":"2026-10-23T01:53:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T06:53:46","slug":"researchers-thread-the-worlds-first-touchscreen-into-a-garment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/researchers-thread-the-worlds-first-touchscreen-into-a-garment","title":{"rendered":"Researchers thread the world\u2019s first touchscreen into a garment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><iframe title=\"Researchers thread the world\u2019s first touchscreen into a garment\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/APOa0ShcmUs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the National University of Singapore\u2019s College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them into a sleeve to create the world\u2019s first touchscreen built into a garment.<\/p>\n<p>The sleeve displays images and video, responds to finger presses and connects wirelessly to other devices, yet stays as washable, breathable and flexible as ordinary clothing. The team\u2019s invention enables the creation of garments that act as a direct interface to a wearer\u2019s health data and their digital devices, with no rigid screen involved.<\/p>\n<p>The screens that we are familiar with, such as those on phones and laptops, typically present graphical user interfaces (GUIs) on flat, rigid panels that display information and enable interaction. Textiles, woven from one-dimensional fibers, have never matched this capability. A full-color, touch-sensitive display that can be threaded like yarn was, until now, out of reach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the National University of Singapore\u2019s College of Design and Engineering (CDE) have developed a fiber that functions as pixels and senses touch at the same time, integrating 54 of them into a sleeve to create the world\u2019s first touchscreen built into a garment. The sleeve displays images and video, responds to finger presses [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1495,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-health","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245849","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}