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The Government is funding over $20 million for the development of Surveillance Clothing called SMARTePANTS

SMART ePANTS

https://www.iarpa.gov/research-programs/smart-epants

The SMART ePANTS program seeks to develop clothing with integrated audio, video, and geolocation sensor systems that feature the same stretchability, bendability, washability, and comfort of regular textiles. By weaving these devices directly into garments, Intelligence Community staff will be able to record infor...

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diseasedolm

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The technology they are proposing to develop to do this sounds pretty sick tho:

""" weavable conductive polymer “wires”, energy harvesters powered by the body, ultra-low power printable computers on cloth, microphones that behave like threads, and “scrunchable” batteries that can function after many deformations. """

archengel

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However they don't seem to have any of that tech yet:

"In order to transfer this research into AST products, revolutionary new materials and manufacturing techniques are needed to develop complete and integrated systems containing mechanically deformable and durable: 1) power sources, 2) sensors, 3) computation and data storage, and 4) electrically conductive system component “wires” and interconnects."