Have you ever thought that one day your clothes will be a mobile phone?

With the development of "smart textiles", you may be able to wear clothes that can make phone calls in the near future.

Not long ago, researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology successfully embedded high-speed optoelectronic semiconductor devices such as light-emitting diodes and photodiodes into fibers, woven them into washable flexible fabrics, and successfully manufactured an embedded communication system. This means that clothes with communication function have been produced.

It is reported that the key to manufacturing new fibers is to polymerize a light-emitting semiconductor diode only the size of sand and a pair of extremely thin copper wires into a preform. In the process of heating and stretching the fiber, the polymer preform is partially liquefied to form long fibers, and the diodes are distributed along the central axis of the fiber and connected by copper wires. The semiconductor devices used in this process are composed of light-emitting diodes and light-sensitive diodes.

The researchers said that the initial commercial application of this technology will be products related to communication and security, and the first batch of products are expected to enter the market next year. This will be the first textile communication system, and the first clothes that can make phone calls will also be made. What about? Amazing!