If handbag can talking

Consider the following three scenarios: your bag to remind you not to forget to bring umbrella or wallet; you see from your scarf on the day of the air pollution index; your home's wall suddenly light, suggesting that you people are trying to steal your home wireless Internet connection.

MIT engineers have developed a computer-controlled textile pieces, these new things will soon be possible. This textile Each unit contains a function of the system - a microprocessor and memory coupled with a radio transceiver, or a sensor or a microphone, or batteries, monitors, etc. MIT Media Lab developer Adrian Kai Boolean, Gori Nanda and Michael Bove introduced, these textile pieces together in different ways, you will be able to create a variety of kind of information provided or environmental detection devices.

In order to make it waterproof, textile pieces in the circuit board is coated with a layer of hard, transparent resin. In a thin foam pad, the circuit board is enclosed within the selected fabric. Can be implanted in the circuit board from the Bluetooth transmitter into the PC motherboard and other kinds of micro-components.

These films can be connected with Velcro. Of course, this buckle is improved, in addition to physical connections play a role, but also to allow current flow. Circuit board wires connected to the buckle in silver-plated contact points. In this way, data and current can flow from one module to another module. The use of square and triangular pieces of textile materials, users can create and converted it into handbags, belts, curtains and scarves and other items. "As long as you like, you can put the system today as a scarf to use tomorrow, transform it into a belt again." Bove said.

In order to create something to prevent people from forgetting the bag, Nanda and Cable for the system equipped with a radio antenna and receiver modules used to identify from in the cell phone, keys and wallet on the RFID (radio frequency identification) tags signal.

When the bag was picked up in the hands of the bag to a sensor module to detect that the owner may have to leave. This triggered a detector to check the computer module be configured to look after those objects. It in another module through the voice synthesizer module warning: "mobile phone, there is! Wallet, there! Key, no!"

Nanda and Cable to make the system more intelligent: to add a Bluetooth chip, so this "bag system" through a nearby computer and Internet connection, from which automatically download weather forecasts. In this way, it will remind you of an umbrella before it rains. The emergence of these additional features, just the system by simply adding new sensors can be achieved. "At that time, people like to bag add functionality as simple as download ringtones today." Bove said.