Google Wants to Make Your Shirt More Like a Smartphone
(Actually) wearable technology
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Google Inc. is getting serious about getting its technology into the fabric of your life —literally.
The Internet company’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, which spends its time on future-looking efforts, is working on Project Jacquard, a set of inventions that makes it possible to weave touch and gesture capabilities into textiles. That could bring us closer to a future when clothing can be used as an extension of our digital lives.