Source: techon.nikkeibp.co.jp
Source: techon.nikkeibp.co.jp
Fabric manufacturer, Shibata Technotex, developed a cloth with copper wire woven around a polyester core. Other conductive metals could be use instead of copper. The thread highly flexible and it can be woven into material use to make cloth or clothing. The material is washable and the thread can be soldered.
They have used this material to make a speaker. They placed a sheet of conductive film between two pieces of conductive fabric. The sound signal is connect to the two conductive fabric. When the current flows through the fabric, it creates a magnetic field which makes the conductive film vibrate and sound is created by the film.
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Interesting, first thing that came to my mind was using this as a way to heat clothes. But that could shrivel the polyester elements in the cloth so maybe it won't work.
@outwalking, was company's goal to make speakers on our clothes or to make a better speaker?
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They didn't say but the company was not founded to make speakers but they manufacture the conductive fabric so I'm assuming that the discovered it could make a speaker by accident.
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