{"id":25479,"date":"2016-05-07T19:47:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T02:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-smart-threads-can-change-the-colour-of-your-clothes-instantly"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:59:03","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:59:03","slug":"new-smart-threads-can-change-the-colour-of-your-clothes-instantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/new-smart-threads-can-change-the-colour-of-your-clothes-instantly","title":{"rendered":"New \u2018smart threads\u2019 can change the colour of your clothes instantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-smart-threads-can-change-the-colour-of-your-clothes-instantly.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ever left the house and immediately regretted your choice of pastel shirt? Well, a new colour-changing thread developed by researchers in the US could soon make that feeling a thing of the past \u2014 and could also open up the possibility of using our garments as tactile displays we wear on our bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Not only could you switch from a black t-shirt to a green one, you could also change the logo on your top. We\u2019re still a long way from that, but this new technology, called Ebb, is showing plenty of promise, and could eventually lead to brand new types of smart clothing.<\/p>\n<p>The colour-shifting threads change their hues in response to electrical charges. It\u2019s being developed as part of Google\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/atap\/project-jacquard\/\">Project Jacquard<\/a> \u2014 one of the company\u2019s spin-off endeavours that\u2019s looking into the potential of making our clothing touch-sensitive and interactive.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-smart-threads-can-change-the-colour-of-your-clothes-instantly\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/new-smart-threads-can-change-the...-instantly<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever left the house and immediately regretted your choice of pastel shirt? Well, a new colour-changing thread developed by researchers in the US could soon make that feeling a thing of the past \u2014 and could also open up the possibility of using our garments as tactile displays we wear on our bodies. Not only [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50558,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25479\/revisions\/50558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}