Computing Fabrics
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2022
- “It’s exciting to really change the aesthetics of technology,” says Yoel Fink, who teaches the course, "Computing Fabrics," to students from MIT and elsewhere. The class explores the history and future of fabrics, including next-gen textiles that will be beautiful and functional in entirely new ways.
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Super cool. Have been following this field for years now and unfortunately I'm yet to see a really meaningful use case. Hope to be surprised soon :)
did you share share with us
All they're doing is sewing in metal wires and China produced sensors into traditional textiles. The clothing of the future should not rely on fabrics grown on farms using exploitive labor. We have nanoscience, nanomaterials and biomaterials and these dumb kids decide to use tax payer subsidized education for a scam textile degree.
There's a clear use case when it comes to VR, with the need for body tracking/sensory feedback. There's also the ability to build adaptivity in so that clothing can respond to temperature/moisture levels. There's also some designs for astronauts to be able to wear something that through resistance/pressure, can help mitigate some effects of living in zero-g. So, there have been a few ideas already making the rounds when it comes to adaptive/dynamic fabric material.
I'm imagining people wearing a computer / power bank wherever they go that can hook up to different clothing to power and control its features, that way it can be an integrated system that is more than a sum of its parts. A hood that puts itself on. Sleeves that roll up or down. Cords, ties, ribbons that tie themselves. Face masks that cover or uncover. Two-sided fabric that turns over for a different color or look. Clothes that can instantly made to look completely different - might be good for espionage. Bags that open and close themselves. Clothes that can change sizes or fits. Skirts that can lengthen or shorten. Swimwear that can transform into a flotation device.
These probably wouldn't be everyday clothes that are meant to be cheap, but would make sense for fashion / luxury focused articles meant to last a while, or for people who want to go that extra mile for self-expression. Definitely a lot of applications for cosplay and magic performance.
I can see this being most useful in the medical industry, monitoring the health of patients via wearable fabric sensors. Also could be really useful in the fitness industry. Imagine a set of workout clothes that analyzes your form when performing exercises and ties into an app on your phone to give you tips on how to improve.
when they said that MIT classes were free I was thinking stuff like this would be like a masterclass on youtube
This is a promotional video. There are many free MIT lectures available. I personally learnt a lot from the MIT Quantum Mechanics courses.
Lol you want to learn to use a wooden loom and bend a metal wire into a wool sweater? You're wasting your time but at least you didn't pay thousands of dollars like these Gen Z suckers that fell for this scam textile degree.
Nice this is innovation and think outside the box. Love to see it!
Not to cry wolf… but I wouldnt wanna wear a hackable smartscarf. You know remote strangeling 😏
YES 😏
2035: google shirt analyses all your movements and sweat composition live. Then pushes pharmaceutical ads straight to your retina (through your google glasses) every time it detects you angry/stressed/depressed.
And that may not even be a joke but forecast ^_^ Facebook already did trials of detecting and altering users emotional states few years ago.
Don´t give psychopaths ideas..
This is soo fascinating
Reminds me of the animw movie Maquia. Tge Iorph people in thw movie used fabric for recording their history and also used it for communication with one another - like encrypted letters.
As a sewer, there are pros and cons concerning my hobby. I am a seamstress, for myself and family. I do repurpose clothing, to be sustainable. I don’t see how this new fabric could be repurposed, unless you are an electrician. The other concern, is what happens when the electronics in the clothing stops working, does it get thrown out? How would this be sustainable? This concept would be fine for furnishings, but not clothing.
"thrown out" is not everywhere as in the USA just dumped in nature(landfills). The biodegradable component the clothing will still be just as environmental friendly as before. When enough clothing is made with smart components, this clothing will become a garbage category in itself. The clothing can be processed to create heat and electricity and metals can be recycled. All of this can and will need to be done with sustainable energy and without emitting toxins.
@@hpekristiansen I was looking for an intelligent answer from MIT, not what you think is fact.
@@SparkyOne549 Good luck being a bitch and at the same time expecting answers
This textile degree is a scam and is set to worsen single use waste. If you want futuristic and tech embedded clothing, go into nanoscience and nanomaterials. Biomaterials is also promising. I genuinely feel sorry for these kids duped into a useless degree. Wasting their MIT university education learning to sew metal wires into wool with a wooden loom, FFS it's 2022.
@@hpekristiansen If you want biodegradable clothing, go into biomaterials. This degree featured is an absolute scam.
Its gonna be blow everybody's mind
good job 👍
Amazing video 💯
Would have appreciated some more examples of specific projects, like the wavy electrode inside the elastomer strand.
They better make that waterproof. I'm not prepared to be shocked when it rains.
Very cool!
Wonderful
fascinating
Awesome 👍👍👍
Congratulations MIT, 💓💓🇮🇳🇮🇳
Please, make this class publicly available, I have been interested in this topic for years but I cannot find much information available
Damn this class looks so interesting
Great work. By the way the Arduino board created by a student for students is earth-shattering when you first use it.
i find this sector FASCINATING and look forward to more opportunities...
THIS IS SO COOL
Ok but where can I buy a textile-compatible strain sensor? I’ve been looking for elastomers with varying electrical resistance, but I’m coming up blank aside from occasional research papers. Virtual reality gloves could be a lot cheaper if we just had little strands of rubber going down each finger hooked up to an ADC, for example.
Please share use cases and examples of deployment.
As much as I love these videos, they hurt me more thinking about my MIT rejection letter 😢
Same here
All that matters is your future career.
Going where the scene is, MIT isn't the only place in America with leading edge engineers.
Plenty of other amazing colleges out there with friends and experiences you could never have at MIT.
Superbb
If we could use this for vascular shunt tech, we could expand a vessel and allow a blockage to release, then immediately collapse the shunt and capture the obstacle for removal.
Pretty cool
A cool look into the possible future of fashion! Love it and well done!
Apple iShirt... Coming 2029! ;-)
You mean the future of fast fashion coming to a landfill near you. Biomaterials and nanomaterials should be the focus if the goal is futuristic clothing. Sewing metal wires and Chinese motion sensors into wool makes nearly impossible to recycle and is also technology that's been possible for decades if not centuries.
Start by announcing the collaboration in the title, that way the wire striping b-roll makes more sense.
hmm??
Natural fabric is beautiful.
This program is amazing, i need to contribute. How can I connect with the team in the video?
Awesome work
Is the self drying jacket finally coming?
but... what does it do though
WOW.....
This reminds me of how our moon landing computers were some kind of woven wire and magnet array.
I wonder if such a system would return in the near future with these electronic textiles?
The A24 sticker at 2:49 adds more joy to this video.
whats a24 mean?
@@autumnrain7626 big budget indie film company.
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Will this be available on edx?
Can someday explain me in detail about this project?
Will there be a setting on our washing machines?
Nice, now I'll be able to wear my social media and youtube 24/7.
6+ hours a day isn't enough...
wow
Great Research work in MIT, Try to share more , many students are highly intrested in INDIA , collaboration or some small research centres makes research work and technology global, advanced technology is for civilization but Sharing more , collaborating more will be great.
For the students of MIT, you are the future, you are currently working with most efficient instruments and gain a lot of experience ,
SHARE IT! SHARE IT!
Charles babbage analytical machine was inspired by looms of the textile industry and ada lovelace took it on with programming..great to see a full circle where computing meets textile again 👍
Why the coffee filters still?
sustainability should be a focus area as well
1:00 just curious to know which simulation software she is using?
Rhino 3d
@@penn_robotics Thank you
This is like from movie the tuxedo.
Get ready for next Spidy Suit. 😎🕷🕸
lol yeah
"So what we're doing is converting the fabric from just being what it has always been to something that plays a very meaningful role in our lives"
I would push back on this a bit. Fabric already plays a meaningful role in our lives. These new technology additions are an extremely modest potential improvement to something already full of value, meaning, and technology. It's OK for tech to play a small supporting role in something much bigger.
Memory cloth cape from batman
What about washing them ?
I don't want smart clothes I want high tech clothes that can do things. First would be temperature modulation. I want clothes that can be cool when they need to be and warm me up if it suddenly becomes cold. Self cleaning etc would also be nice too.
Smart clothes are the first step, then
COMPUTING FABRICS=XPRESSIONS 🍊💐
Basically Batman Begins
Imagine your scarf starts choking you out because you forgot to wash it
We’re one step closer to having a sentient scarf
at a certain stage tis could be handed over to the bio technological team to have its uses incorporated into medical field. looking forward for this kind of applcation
Such useful fabric yet unable to name a single use for it.
👍🏻
at least, we will have superhero suit, but with no power though
"Well, we all know an apple box is quite a worn-out tool", a women spoke while sipping her tea,
"I gave an sweater from apple as a birthday present to my son-in-law. It seems he didn't like it because it was too rosy."
She soon broke down in tears and said, "Did I know it would come to this, just because of that?"
I always wanna plug an USB in the corner of my bed clotches!
random work being done...random words,,,ahhh,yess intelligence
MIT => 😍;
I can imagine they can convert into bullet proof clothes, to fly , rollable ball. A bag can be full of instrument. I have to just imagine what you can make.
It will probably end up used as a sex shop item.
Y’all are three steps away from computational/morphing composite structures. Have a doped fabric or some sort of thermoplastic matrix with this tech. This leads to morphing wings for aircraft. -looks amazing!
To follow up on that idea - they are doing not only fabrics with tailored stiffness, but now having a dynamic/controllable or movable stiffness to the structure! -this is actually pretty amazing and go into almost any industry!
Spacesuit tech
You would hope we would have learnt from past endeavours and, instead of perhaps tagging it on as an afterthought or blindly hoping other disciplines may come up with answers, as the _starting point_ and at _each developmental stage_ assess and fundamentally programme in sustainability. When they choose a fabric or energy source have they evaluated multidimensional cross-paradigmatic meta-scaled full-life cycle impact and risk assessments of their choices?
Looks like Spider-man's suit from homecoming
I could imagine wearing a mouse instead of holding one
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runners / dogs / cycles can use it to light them at night.
1975: "I bet there will be flying cars in the future"
2022: "Finally we reinvent knitting....with wires!"
Am I the only one who thinks that Prof. Fink is overestimating/over-dramatizing this whole thing. Maybe I just don't have the necessary imagination. But lets say you get to the point, where you can integrate some kind of CPU chip into your fabric, lets say your chest: Iron-Man style (which probably would be the whole chip in silicon) and you can connect it with some kind of battery (lets say those fancy fibers) within your clothing. Then you still need some kind of UI, which would need some kind of (Touch)-Screen, lets say its an fabric integrated touch screen in your sleeve. Lets say you build this thing, it works and it doesn't fry you when you get wet during rain. Why would I use this instead of a smartphone. Maybe there are some unique applications where some fancy electrical/smart/whatever fibers can be incredible useful, but I really don't see it in our clothes. Honestly making, simple, more durable, fair, affordable clothing would be 100 times more useful in terms of clothing, when the average T-shirt gets destroyed, thrown away after 10 times use, while costing 1 $, because humans are working under horrible conditions in Asia. And what is this introduction "People today have to almost choose between aesthetics, beauty and technology. They are orthogonal to each other ... " Am I the only one who thinks that this not true at all ? I mean one definition of aesthetic is "concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty". How is this orthogonal to beautiful. Its parallel.
It’s all a promotion, it seems the only real use for this will be in status, being used as a luxury item. It doesn’t have enough application, because if you change clothes, that’s it. Overdramatized for sure
100% My constant question, is, "Why?" Maybe for specific medical or manufacturing usages... but not as clothing. As you said, we are already being pathetic with our throw-away $1 t-shirts made by slave labor in terrible conditions (ah yes, we will, rightfully so, go on about how Fido and Kitty must have access to the garden, but still go buy our $1 tshirts, made by unlucky children/ppl somewhere in the world). Tech just gets to race forward at whatever pace, no matter the cost, all for the lust of ego and greed. Sure, this is all really interesting - textiles, tech, but like, I'd personally really love to be able to go buy clothes that will last years, made of wool, linen, silk, etc. A lot of this new tech, they come up with ideas, throw money at them, and don't even know what to use them for (coughblockchainbitcoinbros). Also, we humans WOULD have choice in fashion, IF we didn't just blindly accept the garbage the fashion companies offer us! oooh, tshirt and bluejeans (or, in the US - flip flops and PJs.....), so creative. As boring as the soulless glass and cement buildings being built everywhere since the second world war.
You're right but here is my take as I studied about these, this come under ubiquitous computing, where the branch wants to integrate technology in day today uses, where you don't know actually you're using tech but use it anyway, like wearing shirt, trousers nobody tells it to you but you do it as a habit.. so if a shirt is able to do some useful thing like detecting abnormal sounds from stomach or say heart rate anomaly, it does that and notifies.. although there are smart watches which are already ubiquitous, these kind of clothing are dedicated to limited applications in its reach..
one example which I think of is using energy harvesting to power the clothing like say you're generating power from you own movements say from your shoe where you have a piezoelectric sensor ( which generates energy from vibration or stress during your movement), now you employ this energy into your clothing and detect hear rate or sound anomaly, and use a BLE( Bluetooth) to send it to your personal device daily to track record everything..
Bruce: Does it come in black?
I don't think textiles should be more than they are (clothes). They are already hard enough to care for, wash, make fire-proof, cheap enough to produce, recycle, repurpose, etc.
well idk think humans were meant to be more than just hunters and gatherers but here we are :/
@@paulatreides9806 But that is evolution with a purpose, this is just for the sake of trying something new. People are already hating on smart appliances (smart toasters, smart fridges, etc.). Maybe those textiles will be useful in other domains, but definitely not in clothing.
The scales of fish, reptiles, bird feathers, mammal fur I believe are the same material but mutations have allowed these animals to adapt this material for very divergent functions.
Correct. Nanomaterials and using AI designed biomaterials are the future; not sewing a wavy metal wire into a wool sweater. Poor kids wasting their lives and money on this scam degree.
Plain English please.
MIT is becoming more of a film making school then a research school.
only talking like typical mba. i could find anything interesting in this video
the tuxedo jackie chan vibes
It's really frustrating to see these kinds of videos because they end up being full of stylish shots but don't do the actual subject justice. The whole content of this video is "run that capacitance demo on the arduino again and pretend you're working on something".
One word to destroy the concept - Wash. How many times have you washed the fabrics that you're using for the POC?
Home ec can return to public education without stigma lol
Don't mind me. I am just knitting a computer.
Fun fact : mainframe memories used to be woven from metal wire and magnetic cores.
@@agnelomascarenhas8990 interesting. Thanks for sharing
The clothes are gonna trigger metal detectors and probably get banned for civilian use.
its been 1:49 minutes and you've still not got to the point of what this tech actually is and what it does. You literally repeated the same thing till this point multiple times. Stop gaming the algorithm and respect your viewers' time
finally i can be flash or iron man
Eventually we will be able to mimic fabrics and 3D print them. You'll download your clothes from designers, and print them at home. Anyhow, I'm looking to join the MIT xPRO AR VR Program in November. However, I have no money. Do you have any kind of programs for people like me. Perhaps businesses looking to invest in that tech, looking to sponsor designers/artists. Trade a little time and energy for them. Or, if not I could work for you (MIT) and create content for your channel. Let me know if you might be interested.
what r counter cases to be filed against wife's .
This is far-fetched but imagine in the future if you are choking and your jumper can do the Heimlich manoeuvre on you,I know sounds stupid,but their must be thousands of applications for this technology ,maybe we just haven’t thought of it yet. Or imagine you gained some weight or lost some weight and your clothes no longer fit you ,could simply press a button under the clothing which would make it shrink and fit your body. Or imagine a cast on your arm held in place by a electrical current and when the cast is ready to come off you simply press it and it dissipates back into its normal cloth shape. Man I’m bursting with ideas.
Waw
superlative laden hype
😀😀good marketing...thats all. Next, computational agriculture. Opps....it already exist.
All fun and jokes till you give it a wash 🤣
Imagine having nanoscience and nanomaterial degrees available and you choose a textile degree to learn to sew metal wires and Chinese sensors into wool.
@@nigel-uno Oh, my joke was essentially to do with the fact that they are using such advance technology to make clothes but it might get messed up after a wash.
I dont care of who chose the degree, good on them. I am sure they enjoy it much better than neuroscience or whatever is out there
@@shehzad2519 For the goal of futuristic clothing, they are wasting their lives in the wrong degree. It's like getting a degree in making gas powered cars in 2030 when electric and hydrogen cars are objectively better and have replaced gas powered cars.
@@nigel-uno doesn't matter what's better as long as you enjoy it. That's the fundamental for any profession as it is lifestyle coz I would never do something that is popular or pays high, yet I dont enjoy it. That my friend, is misery and very sad
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So , fiber will expose your privacy on socal networking ..
Are you guys studying Jackie Chan Tuxedo???🤔🤔
Are guys studying Jackie Chan Tuxedo???🤔🤔
This may work in architecture for certain facades. But the cost of production exceeds the longevity and service of the product. Form follows function, always when we talk about clothing. These classes are good but it feels like a subterfuge. Is it refreshing? Yes, eclectic ideas and methods of technology reviews history. Other than that there is not much to do.