Gadgetory

where's fashion going to go in technology are you gonna be able to touch your shirt and do things and make magical things happen with fabrics well there's a division within Google a tab that has a project called Project jacquard and that's here at Google i/o and it's basically showing how you can weave together fabrics that have some interactive properties to them and now with this touch sensitive fabric you can just tap it to turn the lights on and off or you can increase the brightness or I could even change the color I could use a piece of interactive fabric to control my music just by tapping or stroking or doing that or volume imagine if this was on my shirt or comfy pillow you can even kind of use it as a trackpad or a interactive art tool that's not really clear what else you could do but I guess they're exploring the idea of textiles as a future piece of the puzzle and technology it's part of the mysteries of what's around at Google i/o always interesting science projects and fun things to explore I'm Scott Stein at CNET and I have been stroking fabric to make things happen