{"id":90501,"date":"2019-05-09T12:24:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/color-changing-smart-thread-turns-fabric-into-a-computerized-display"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:24:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:24:34","slug":"color-changing-smart-thread-turns-fabric-into-a-computerized-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/color-changing-smart-thread-turns-fabric-into-a-computerized-display","title":{"rendered":"Color-Changing \u201cSmart Thread\u201d Turns Fabric into a Computerized Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/color-changing-smart-thread-turns-fabric-into-a-computerized-display3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But who would wear clothes that double as a computer display? And why? And how would people respond to computerized clothes? The team explored these questions in in-depth research sessions with seventeen people, including five fashion designers.<\/p>\n<p>At first the participants were put off by thinking of Ebb as another computer screen. \u201cI don\u2019t want to wear a screen,\u201d said one participant. \u201cThere\u2019s enough glare in my life as it is,\u201d said another. The idea made them recall past experiences of light-emitting clothing: \u201cblinking Christmas sweaters, children\u2019s sneakers that lit up when they walked, or light-up visors they might get at carnivals and amusement parks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Ebb isn\u2019t a light-up screen; it\u2019s just fabric that changes color. Feeling the fabric samples changed their responses. One participant said that the fabric \u201cseems a lot more tactile and something like cloth rather than plasticky\u2026 I think it\u2019s just more intimate and easier to like.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ischool.berkeley.edu\/news\/2016\/color-changing-smart-thread-turns-fabric-computerized-display\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But who would wear clothes that double as a computer display? And why? And how would people respond to computerized clothes? The team explored these questions in in-depth research sessions with seventeen people, including five fashion designers. At first the participants were put off by thinking of Ebb as another computer screen. \u201cI don\u2019t want [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90501","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}