Levi Strauss & Co. and Google are collaborating on an initiative aimed to make jeans, jackets, shirts and even underwear into wearable technology input devices. 'Project Jacquard' is being introduced at Google’s developers’ conference and will endeavor to put the input functions available on smartwatches and smart glasses directly into woven fabrics. Conductive fibers, developed by Google through a Japanese firm, can be woven into virtually any type of woven textile, without so much as the modification of the loom.
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