Researchers say they've made smart clothes that actually feel like fabric

Wearable tech is often helpful, but rarely as comfortable as your favorite sweater. MIT CSAIL might just make that tech downright comfy, though. Its researchers say they've developed smart clothes whose "tactile electronics" can track even subtler body movements while looking and feeling like the soft, breathable apparel you'd wear every day. The textiles are machine-knitted using both conventional material and piezoresistive fibers that react to pressure and hold arbitrary 3D shapes. Machine learning helps calibrate and correct the sensors so that they produce consistent output.