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Published online 5 December 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021202-11
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Shoes and sheets get wired
Gadgets could soon come as clothes and carpets.
Fabrics woven with wires and electronic devices are being fashioned into speedometer shoes, chameleon curtains and singing shirts.
'Electrotextiles', researchers heard this week at the meeting of the Materials Research Society in Boston, are also being rolled out to measure footfalls, detect explosions and spot smuggling.
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