Gallery: 3-D Printed Fabrics Turn Body Suit Into a Wearable MP3 Player
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According to Dutch fashion designer [Borre Akkersdijk](http://byborre.com/) there is no such thing as wearable technology.
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Akkersdijk is more than a critic and has designed a product that attempts to illustrate his vision for what truly wearable technology containing Wifi, GPS, NFC, and Bluetooth components that turns wearers into walking access points to the web.
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Akkersdijk rigged circular knitting machines to knit two layers of fine cotton thread so that they would envelope conductive wires enabling connectivity with sensors, power supplies, and UI actuators.
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"If we really want to create a wearable platform we would need to over come a lot of problems where tech and textile and clothing meet," says Akkersdijk.
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There's a double challenge of convincing fashionistas and techies to buy in, but Akkersdijk is confident that clothing and connectivity are meant to be together. "In the future it could be as normal as your cell phone and we will talk about the iPhone like we do about the fax machine."
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Today, the ByBorre crew is housed in an old cookie factory in Amsterdam where Akkersdijk and his studio director work with a series of technicians to push these machines to their limits in an attempt to marry garments and Google.
