Google, Levi's redefine wearable tech with interactive clothing

 

At Google’s I/O 2015 developer conference, the company introduced Project Jacquard: a technology that utilizes conductive fabric to enable the development of “touchscreen” clothing.

The name is a tip of the hat to the Jacquard Loom, an early rudimentary computer used in textile production.

According to a report on 9to5google, the demo set up at the conference shows how the cloth functions basically the same way as a screen.

 

 

Project Jacquard was developed under Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) unit and a report on Quartz says that Google may be teaming up with Levi’s to product interactive clothing. There are no details yet on what kind of clothing the team-up will produce.

 

“If there’s a chance to enable the clothes that we already love to help us facilitate access to the best and most necessary of this digital world—while maintaining eye contact with the person we are eating dinner with—this is real value,” said Paul Dillinger, Levi’s vice president of innovation. — Bea Montenegro/TJD, GMA News