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Deaf patrons feel opera productiions via haptic SoundShirt

July 1st, 2024

The SoundShirt software was refined at the Lyric Opera of Chicago during the 2022–23 season, which featured test audiences. This past season the theater made 10 shirts available for select performances of each opera. Increasing numbers of the shirts were used during each performance. Images: Lyric Opera of Chicago Haptic feedback given through a light […]

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Wearable electronics technology developers, textile designers and fashion brands join forces to make smarter clothing

July 1st, 2017

Over the past decade, we’ve seen a slow but sure evolution of wearable electronics, including smart textiles, designed primarily to monitor body functions and communicate with the Internet of Things. But a great many of them were not especially wearable, and some never made it out of the lab. The tide, however, seems to be […]

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