By
Abdulaziz Azzawi
Faisal Bakri
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
 The importance of multimedia communication in
our daily life is growing. As everyday a new
development in multimedia is released, and each
development goal is to make our daily activities
easier, interesting, and fun. Clothes are being
developed to a new development called smart
clothes, which contains t-shirts, shoes, pants, and
even underwear. Smart clothes can reduce stress,
and know what the wearer feels.
 Consists of media as:
Advertisement, Printed materials, Presentations.
 And content as:
Text, audio, images, animation, video, and interactivity
content form.
Multimedia can be displayed using processing devices,
such as computers and other electronic devices that can
access and read the contents, and also multimedia can
be a live performance that’s made by human.
 Multimedia categories:
 Linear:
without any navigational control.
 Non-linear:
In this category multimedia progress is controlled.
 Characteristics of multimedia:
 Multimedia presentations.
 Multimedia games and simulations.
The multimedia term was produced by Bob Goldstein as he
was promoting for his show called “LightWorks at L'Oursin”
back in 1966. On August 10, 1966, the term was borrowed by
Richard Albarino. And after two years, in 1968, the
multimedia term meaning was changed by David Sawyer to
describe his work as a consultant.
The multimedia term took many different meanings, but Tay
Vaughan stated that multimedia is the combination of text,
graphics, sound, video, and animation that are delivered my
any electronic device that can progress the contents or by a
computer. And this is the meaning that we use till now.
multimedia is used to describe the multiple appearance
of only one form of media such as a collection of video
CDs. That’s why “multimedia” should be only used while
describing multiple forms of media content.
 Usage:
 Commercial.
 Engineering.
 Mathematical and scientific research.
 Medicine.
This new technology is made from fabrics, these fabrics
has two specifications that are wireless, and washable. It
contains computing fibers and materials.
Smart clothes can be involved in many different fields
such as, military, health, emotions, safety, etc….
One of the new smart clothes technologies is a suit that
is used by the military. This suit can be used in combats;
these suits contain optical fibers that can detect wounds
and pivotal emotions “signs” while the wearer is in
action depending on the combat condition. And it helps
detecting the location of the injury within seconds
helping the medicals knowing who needs immediate
medical treatment.
T-shirt that monitors their
blood pressure, heart, stress, etc… these t-shirts contains
sensors within the fabrics, which continuously monitor
and detect vital signs. And if it sensed danger it contacts
the doctor giving him the information about the
situation which allows him to send u a message back
telling the patient to rest and what to do to avoid any
bad circumstances. And it also can be used to monitor
mentally ill patients. These t-shirt can also be used for
any ages; they can be used for babies to monitor their
vital signs since those babies are prone to (SIDS).
 This type of smart clothes
can control and help the wearer with his stress. A prototype
of this technology is out, and to do its job it has to monitor
two physiological states, which are temperature and heart
beats rate. After monitoring these two physiological states
and also detecting the emotional state of the wearer the, the
clothes are directly connected to a large database that takes
all the information and analysis is and starts working on the
emotional state of the wearer.
 Words, songs, and large types of media directly pops to the
display and speakers depending on the emotional feeling
the wearer is at, and tries to cool him down if he is stressed
or cheer him up if he is down. And next is a picture of the
prototype.
 Motion Detecting Pants.
 Proximity Sensing Shirt.
 Heart Sensing Bra.
 Smart Running Shoes.
 Networked Jacket.
 Neuro Headset.
 Thought Helmet.
 Biosensor Underwear.
 As we saw that smart clothes are being involved in a lot
of different fields, fields which are very important in
our daily life such as health, emotions, sports, military,
etc…
 So that shows how important smart clothes
development is going to be in the close future.
 But smart clothes also has few negatives as it is going
to be an expensive technology, and also in the health
field smart clothes will monitor the wearer health and
send the information to the doctor, but it doesn’t
respond for the dangerous health conditions.
 And also because of the monitoring function, some
wearers will be annoyed because their privacy has
been compromised, and maybe unauthorized people
will be able to show those personal information and
use them.