Smaller motion sensor should enable ‘smart clothes’

A smaller motion sensor should enable ‘smart clothing’. An American company has made a sensor that is half the size of current models, making it possible to integrate the sensor in sports clothing, for example.

The company mCube, for example, is thinking of sensors in golf clothing, so that users can immediately see how their swing was, writes MIT Technology Review. Although the motion sensor is already available and is even made in China in a circulation of tens of millions of copies, the sensor is not yet available in clothing. The main obstacle is how the sensor gets energy to function.

The smaller motion sensor would function more economically and more precisely, because the mechanism of the sensor itself and the part that reads the data are in the same housing. The smaller sensor is currently intended for cheap smartphones, in which the sensor must be able to replace the gyroscope from more expensive devices. When the ‘smart clothes’ should come on the market, mCube does not say.