LED Displays Get Wearable

As the craving for wearable electronics grows, laboratories around the world have been seeking to integrate fabric--the raw material of fashion—and electronic displays. Various researchers have demonstrated fabrics that change color, but Imec (formerly the Inter-university Micro Electronics Centre, Leuven, Belgium) today claims it is the first to integrated light-emitting-diodes (LEDs) into a flexible, wearable fabric that serves as both a sensor and a display.