Exploring Use Cases for Electronic Clothes

Adafruit Industries, an open-source hardware company, recently announced a new wearable electronic platform that is Arduino compatible. Called Flora, the 1.75-inch device will soon be available to Adafruit’s community of makers, hackers, crafters, artists, designers and engineers. Using the open source device, they’ll be able to create a matrix of up to hundreds or someday more than 1,000 small LED “pixels” and embed them it into fabric...

... there are a lot of applications across many domains and embedded electronic could ultimately improve our lives...

Health/Data logging - Wearable sensors are essential for monitoring body signals, medical diagnosis, mHealth applications, and body area networks. They could also be used in treatment. For instance, there’s a scarf that is designed to calm Autistic sufferers using textures, sounds and smells...