Computing Fabrics

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

2 жыл бұрын

“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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@funnyturtles8954 2 жыл бұрын

when they said that MIT classes were free I was thinking stuff like this would be like a masterclass on youtube

@mudkip_btw 2 жыл бұрын

This is a promotional video. There are many free MIT lectures available. I personally learnt a lot from the MIT Quantum Mechanics courses.

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrThonny15 2 жыл бұрын

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 :)

@danielharris8917 2 жыл бұрын

did you share share with us

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Vaeldarg 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@cryora 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@LimitedWard 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@EyesOfByes 2 жыл бұрын

Not to cry wolf… but I wouldnt wanna wear a hackable smartscarf. You know remote strangeling 😏

@shalonichauhan5340 2 жыл бұрын

YES 😏

@sznikers 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Siranoxz 2 ай бұрын

Don´t give psychopaths ideas..

@SparkyOne549 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@hpekristiansen 2 жыл бұрын

"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.

@SparkyOne549 2 жыл бұрын

@@hpekristiansen I was looking for an intelligent answer from MIT, not what you think is fact.

@hpekristiansen 2 жыл бұрын

@@SparkyOne549 Good luck being a bitch and at the same time expecting answers

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

@@hpekristiansen If you want biodegradable clothing, go into biomaterials. This degree featured is an absolute scam.

@kedusyared6589 2 жыл бұрын

Nice this is innovation and think outside the box. Love to see it!

@Shreyaagrawal_1657 2 жыл бұрын

This is soo fascinating

@zedfalcon6972 2 жыл бұрын

but... what does it do though

@bios546 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@babu_moshai 2 жыл бұрын

Its gonna be blow everybody's mind good job 👍

@Excalibur32 Жыл бұрын

Would have appreciated some more examples of specific projects, like the wavy electrode inside the elastomer strand.

@chaoyangchen5983 2 жыл бұрын

They better make that waterproof. I'm not prepared to be shocked when it rains.

@MasterCivilEngineering 2 жыл бұрын

Amazing video 💯

@josephquinn6060 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing to see this progress in fabric technologies! I think that they have all of the components in a format applicable to textiles (batteries, semiconductors, sensors, etc...) but are still lacking in the integration techniques. The examples shown here are merely fabrics that happen to have some smarts embedded in them. The real breakthrough at this point is having the engineered fibers being an integral part of the fabric, instead of isolated sections. Similar to how computers progressed from discrete logic chips to integrated dies. This could probably be realized using a computer-controlled mechanism similar to a lace-making machine.

@pfever 2 жыл бұрын

Please, make this class publicly available, I have been interested in this topic for years but I cannot find much information available

@goodboy4464 4 ай бұрын

Please share use cases and examples of deployment.

@BicycleFunk 2 жыл бұрын

Very cool!

@TomHutchinson5 2 жыл бұрын

"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.

@codingWorld709 2 жыл бұрын

Congratulations MIT, 💓💓🇮🇳🇮🇳

@vik0_052 2 жыл бұрын

Damn this class looks so interesting

@Bubbamacomb 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful

@godbodyrock 2 жыл бұрын

i find this sector FASCINATING and look forward to more opportunities...

@huyphan9283 2 жыл бұрын

As much as I love these videos, they hurt me more thinking about my MIT rejection letter 😢

@cartoonsong193 2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@ManFromTheFizz 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@timothylopez8572 Жыл бұрын

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.

@cleo6205 2 жыл бұрын

Natural fabric is beautiful.

@pranaybarai6185 2 жыл бұрын

fascinating

@karmaa9179 2 жыл бұрын

Will this be available on edx?

@briefcasecrisp9737 2 жыл бұрын

THIS IS SO COOL

@nsudam Жыл бұрын

Awesome 👍👍👍

@Shadow__133 2 жыл бұрын

Nice, now I'll be able to wear my social media and youtube 24/7. 6+ hours a day isn't enough...

@AraCarrano 2 жыл бұрын

Start by announcing the collaboration in the title, that way the wire striping b-roll makes more sense.

@yash1152 2 жыл бұрын

hmm??

@icantfindausernamehe 2 жыл бұрын

Great work. By the way the Arduino board created by a student for students is earth-shattering when you first use it.

@valeriecarpentier6384 2 жыл бұрын

Is the self drying jacket finally coming?

@deepmistry1515 2 жыл бұрын

This program is amazing, i need to contribute. How can I connect with the team in the video?

@sarahkhan5412 4 ай бұрын

Can someday explain me in detail about this project?

@greenbeecolony1911 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool

@hikistark_ 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome work

@HustleHeadquarters 2 жыл бұрын

Will there be a setting on our washing machines?

@stickynorth 2 жыл бұрын

A cool look into the possible future of fashion! Love it and well done!

@stickynorth 2 жыл бұрын

Apple iShirt... Coming 2029! ;-)

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@zefellowbud5970 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@niceengine2571 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@quarepercutisproximum9582 2 жыл бұрын

Smart clothes are the first step, then

@Scrogan 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheAIRace-colony 2 жыл бұрын

Superbb

@M_Sonata 2 жыл бұрын

The A24 sticker at 2:49 adds more joy to this video.

@autumnrain7626 2 жыл бұрын

whats a24 mean?

@youngmilly5694 2 жыл бұрын

@@autumnrain7626 big budget indie film company.

@stiki123 2 жыл бұрын

Why the coffee filters still?

@ullaskunder 2 жыл бұрын

WOW.....

@narutouzumaki3548 2 жыл бұрын

sustainability should be a focus area as well

@prasanna3378 2 жыл бұрын

Get ready for next Spidy Suit. 😎🕷🕸

@paulatreides9806 2 жыл бұрын

lol yeah

@MechanicalNib 2 жыл бұрын

🔥🔥🔥🔥

@SomenathGarai 2 жыл бұрын

Basically Batman Begins

@Gigachad2048 2 жыл бұрын

Memory cloth cape from batman

@gauravbansal2438 2 жыл бұрын

What about washing them ?

@aipaperreader 2 жыл бұрын

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 👍

@Rookiexgyromeri01 Жыл бұрын

This is like from movie the tuxedo.

@timtreichel3161 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@lucasfc4587 2 жыл бұрын

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

@AmaltheaVimes 3 ай бұрын

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.

@vishalsivakumar3860 Ай бұрын

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..

@Thehappiesthiccup 2 жыл бұрын

We’re one step closer to having a sentient scarf

@anchalgera2505 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@user-tp9kq8gr8h Жыл бұрын

"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?"

@math4fun Жыл бұрын

I always wanna plug an USB in the corner of my bed clotches!

@meipia1608 2 жыл бұрын

Imagine your scarf starts choking you out because you forgot to wash it

@ManishSingh-dj3ds 2 жыл бұрын

1:00 just curious to know which simulation software she is using?

@penn_robotics 2 жыл бұрын

Rhino 3d

@ManishSingh-dj3ds 2 жыл бұрын

@@penn_robotics Thank you

@DS-xg9kf 2 жыл бұрын

Such useful fabric yet unable to name a single use for it.

@samvictor217 2 жыл бұрын

at least, we will have superhero suit, but with no power though

@XCSme 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulatreides9806 2 жыл бұрын

well idk think humans were meant to be more than just hunters and gatherers but here we are :/

@XCSme 2 жыл бұрын

@@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.

@agnelomascarenhas8990 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@alexcostamartins6939 2 жыл бұрын

wow

@tauseef8759 2 жыл бұрын

COMPUTING FABRICS=XPRESSIONS 🍊💐

@AbhinavSafi 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@Shadow__133 2 жыл бұрын

It will probably end up used as a sex shop item.

@jyothsnakandarp Жыл бұрын

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

@titleatptitleinsertcoordin3701 2 жыл бұрын

I could imagine wearing a mouse instead of holding one

@joshmaxwell8767 2 жыл бұрын

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".

@helms6561 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@helms6561 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@kshitijjagtap356 2 жыл бұрын

random work being done...random words,,,ahhh,yess intelligence

@devismarkam3871 2 жыл бұрын

Looks like Spider-man's suit from homecoming

@puduhari1 2 жыл бұрын

runners / dogs / cycles can use it to light them at night.

@NightBeyondVeil 2 жыл бұрын

Bruce: Does it come in black?

@rishabhkhatri 2 жыл бұрын

MIT is becoming more of a film making school then a research school.

@kapoosa1 2 жыл бұрын

only talking like typical mba. i could find anything interesting in this video

@BsktImp 2 жыл бұрын

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?

@96x26 2 жыл бұрын

1975: "I bet there will be flying cars in the future" 2022: "Finally we reinvent knitting....with wires!"

@chandru9133 2 жыл бұрын

One word to destroy the concept - Wash. How many times have you washed the fabrics that you're using for the POC?

@Makes_me_wonder 2 жыл бұрын

The clothes are gonna trigger metal detectors and probably get banned for civilian use.

@ullaskunder 2 жыл бұрын

MIT => 😍;

@basicduck 2 жыл бұрын

Spacesuit tech

@starman62akshaykumar 2 жыл бұрын

👍🏻

@frunomaol5069 2 жыл бұрын

Plain English please.

@keshkumar7851 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@markj7913 Жыл бұрын

the tuxedo jackie chan vibes

@jwebstersmithii7459 Жыл бұрын

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.

@daruiraikage 2 жыл бұрын

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

@omsingharjit 2 жыл бұрын

So , fiber will expose your privacy on socal networking ..

@dadsonworldwide3238 5 ай бұрын

Home ec can return to public education without stigma lol

@AbdulSalam-oi5uq 2 жыл бұрын

👍

@taukirsheikh9405 2 жыл бұрын

finally i can be flash or iron man

@rocks7688 2 жыл бұрын

what r counter cases to be filed against wife's .

@realkk 2 жыл бұрын

Don't mind me. I am just knitting a computer.

@agnelomascarenhas8990 2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact : mainframe memories used to be woven from metal wire and magnetic cores.

@realkk 2 жыл бұрын

@@agnelomascarenhas8990 interesting. Thanks for sharing

@kaptenluffy4518 2 жыл бұрын

Are you guys studying Jackie Chan Tuxedo???🤔🤔

@kummer45 3 ай бұрын

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.

@kaptenluffy4518 2 жыл бұрын

Are guys studying Jackie Chan Tuxedo???🤔🤔

@emmanuelameyaw9735 2 жыл бұрын

😀😀good marketing...thats all. Next, computational agriculture. Opps....it already exist.

@adminomhfoz1908 2 жыл бұрын

superlative laden hype

@ibrahimtech1581 2 жыл бұрын

It isn't practical. What if you stain it drinking coffee at Starbucks. Will i have to get a whole new fabric or will it be wash proof?

@ibrahimtech1581 2 жыл бұрын

Nonetheless a cool idea.

@nigel-uno 2 жыл бұрын

It's a complete waste of time to learn about sewing in wires into traditional textiles. Do any of these people understand the life cycle of these traditional textiles? Skip this outdated trash and learn nanoscience, nanomaterials or biomaterials. Our clothes of tomorrow should not shrink in the wash and need to farmed off animals.