Modern fibre technology? Optical fibre is not something to be used near the human body. It will not bend and it will not survive twisting. Ok you can intergrate wiring into the fabric but what wiring do you intergrate into the fabric? Anything you put in will at some point become obsolete so if it is possible and easy to remove the wiring you have future proofed the garment. As for bluetooth and radio intergration. radio/micro waves are blocked by water, thats how your microwave oven works. Having bluetooth systems near your body would a) not work b) cause all those things atributed to mobile phones, with the added chance of you burning yourself while on the phone. Did you not read the bit in the article that said that these garments were made for bisiness person not for geeks.
I am currently building something like this, but more in line with what a geek would want. the full description can be found here. http://billiau.net/coffee_break/Adrian/fullbody.ht ml
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Modern fibre technology? Optical fibre is not something to be used near the human body. It will not bend and it will not survive twisting. Ok you can intergrate wiring into the fabric but what wiring do you intergrate into the fabric? Anything you put in will at some point become obsolete so if it is possible and easy to remove the wiring you have future proofed the garment.
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As for bluetooth and radio intergration. radio/micro waves are blocked by water, thats how your microwave oven works. Having bluetooth systems near your body would a) not work b) cause all those things atributed to mobile phones, with the added chance of you burning yourself while on the phone.
Did you not read the bit in the article that said that these garments were made for bisiness person not for geeks.
I am currently building something like this, but more in line with what a geek would want. the full description can be found here. http://billiau.net/coffee_break/Adrian/fullbody.h