From Katy Perry’s LED-lit dress to smart soldier uniforms, Suzanne Bearne speaks to the small businesses innovating in smart fashion and wearable techFancy tweeting your thoughts on to an LED-lit cocktail dress? Receiving a notification when you’ve lost your sunglasses? Or watching your emerald ring flash when you’ve been sent a text message?Whether you want to wear this futuristic-style wardrobe right now is another question, but research indicates that it’s likely to form part of your attire at some point in the future. According to Gartner, smart clothes are predicted to surpass smartwatches and fitness bands to become the biggest wearables sector by next year, with 26 million smart garments expected to be shipped in 2016, up from 0.01 million in 2013
Is wearable technology set to take over our wardrobes?
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