The future is soft, or so Google believes. A new project and partnership with Levi’s, announced at the Internet giant’s I/O conference Friday, looks to smarten up clothing by embedding conductive ...

Google’s ATAP unit today debuted Project Jacquard, the group’s effort to develop the technology that could soon make interactive textiles not just a novelty, but something that the global fashion ...

The future is soft, or so Google believes. A new project and partnership with Levi's, announced at the Internet giant's I/O conference Friday, looks to smarten up clothing by embedding conductive ...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osCPWMyJOj8&w=470] The Jacquard loom, invented in the early 1800s, used punched cards to manufacture relatively complex ...

1752: Joseph Marie Jacquard is born in Lyon, France. The weaver and inventor would create the first programmable power loom, revolutionize the weaving industry and lay the foundation for modern data ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jacquard, single weave coverlet in ...