Never has technology been as innovative as it is today. During the later decades of the 20th century, we have witnessed rapid technological innovation characterised by the introduction of cutting-edge devices and gadgets designed to make our lives easier and our work faster and efficient. This innovation encompasses a broad scope of social facets and industries. One of its most notable products is the so-called “intelligent” clothes. This brand new class of clothing range from sports garments to work jackets, winter gloves and bags. Designed using a combination of smart fabrics, electronic circuits and other high-tech components, these wearable technologies are definitely ideal for people who value flexibility, comfort and style.

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These innovative clothes can be categorise in two major types: the wearable electronics and the smart clothes. The wearable electronics are clothes embedded with a computing technology. Examples are firefighter’s jackets integrated with a thermal sensing device that sends out an alarm if the temperature has risen too high for the body to handle, and a WiFi detecting shirt that is capable of searching for wireless signals and displaying signal strength in an image printed on the shirt. Smart clothes on the other hand are those that react to external and physiological stimuli. They are capable of sensing the environment or the physical condition of the person wearing them. One examples of this type of clothes is a jacket that changes density and temperature in response to the environment in order provide comfort and functionality to the wearer at all time and in all conditions.