Frog Vision: Personal Force-field

Future fabrics take today's clothes and infuse them with ultra-smart techno-skills.

By weaving conductive filaments into fabric, everyday clothing can be transformed into smart clothes that react to environments and provide power to portable gizmos.

Slip into a tracksuit made of future fabrics and you'll instantly start generating electricity. Micro generators embedded in the seams turn your movements into power, with enough juice to charge your phone or satnav, just by dropping it into a pocket.

Your cyber-suit can discharge its power at any time, creating a shell of electricity and forming a personal forcefield to keep you safe down darkened alleyways.

The electrical forcefield has the power to stun an attacker, and the intelligent fabric can even tell when you're nervous, monitoring heart rate and anxiety levels so it automatically knows when to power-up its protection system.

Walk the streets in safety, thanks to your seemingly ordinary, but astoundingly clever future fabric!

Frog Vision is a series of articles looking at the future through the eyes of Frog Design strategic creative consultancy.

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