They can be placed on the body, discreetly integrated into our clothes or otherwise glued, sewn or moulded into anything soft.
And with these new types of products these computers we can wear we'll be entering another phase of our digital journey, a phase where the tech goes from being something noticeable, and in some cases cumbersome, to something which will slip quietly into the background, integrated into our clothes and the objects that surround us.
She spent her long light evenings sewing her own clothes, integrating herself slowly into her skateboarding brother's gang of friends.
Lumenus integrates LEDs into clothes.
In such environments, traditional computers, input and output devices disappear and are replaced by processors and sensors, integrated in everyday objects (e.g. clothes, household devices, furniture).
As the market and related industry for wearable electronics dramatically expands, there are continuous and strong demands for flexible and stretchable devices to be seamlessly integrated with soft and curvilinear human skin or clothes.
And many of them, especially those associated with the group known as the Takfiris, are so integrated into Western society, even eating pork, drinking and wearing Western clothes as a cover, that they are almost impossible to discover beforehand".
Russia continues to be fairly well integrated into the world economy: Among other things, Russians wear the same clothes, listen to the same music and watch the same movies as most of the Western world.
Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but researchers at Ohio State University have taken an important step: weaving circuits into clothes with enough precision to integrate them with ordinary PCBs.
Furthermore, physiological monitoring has been simplified with features such as smart clothes which integrate very small biosensors and can be used to both multiply the number of parameters that can be measured and introduce physiological and psychological measurements into ambulatory practice.
