A light wrap?
Materials scientists have created fabrics that can both detect light and conduct electricity, suggesting new light-detecting textiles and novel projection screens.
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Reporting in the Oct. 14 Nature, Yoel Fink and his colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wove fabrics out of hollow fibers 400 to 500 microns in diameter. The fibers consist of a glass core that generates an electric signal when illuminated, a middle layer of four tin wires,