Future clothes
Want to know what kind of clothes and shoes will be in 2029? Clever socks, boots, smart jeans, brainy bras, bright coats, clever jackets, smart gloves, sensible dresses and big hats. Clothes in the coming years will get smarter, and those who are employed in the industry of “smart” clothes, will get rich. The process is under way. Possible applications of new technologies to «intelligent» clothing are broad and diverse. Already, there are many created prototypes and serial production is tentatively expected in the twenties-thirties of this century.
Twenty or thirty years later, we will finally see no television advertising of obtrusive means from sweating. It will be replaced by importunate clothes advertising, performing the same function – socks, which will not let one’s feet smell, T-shirts, successfully fighting a bad smell under armpits, etc.
The process of miniaturization of computer components and household appliances will inevitably lead to all sorts of technical novelties of the individual boxes and boxes turned into one with items of clothing.
British researcher Adam Best has created clothes that produce electricity in the process of wearing. There are already established clothes with embedded solar panels that can recharge the battery of a cell phone, a camera or an I-pod. Of course, fans of virtual reality are unlikely to abandon jackets that can be used as a computer keyboard (for the foreseeable future, the size of the remaining parts of the computer can not be taken into account). Experts predict the massive proliferation of wearable computers by the end of the next decade.
The only drop of tar, a dark speck on the bright image of «intelligent» clothing – is its price. By a strange coincidence of circumstances, in any information about high-tech innovations of textile industry, except the most primitive (like wireless sneakers), there are no hints of how much all these pleasures may cost. What could be the logical conclusion: probably not cheap at all. But remember, once the car was a toy for super rich people, color TV, too, initially was not available to all, and cell phone until quite recently was considered a luxury. For some future customers it will come sooner than for the others, but eventually it will be for everyone.
In conclusion, I would like to mention another new technology, that has reflected in the age-old dream of lazy people (including the author of this article). The British company Alexium Limited is now actively promoting a new technology, originally developed by Pentagon’s request to use in case of chemical and germ warfare. Thanks to the so-called reactive cleaning surfaces it is possible to establish self-cleaning clothes. Such clothing will not be dirty and wet, it will not stick to the bad smells, so it will not need washing.
Here it is – the bright future! Cannot wait to see those clothes on the shelves of shops! And without knickers with DVD-players, and GPS-navigators I still can do…
