In the near future, you many choose your wardrobe based on what your clothes can do as much as how they look. Scientists are using nanotechnology--- the process of manipulating materials on an atomic or molecular scale ---to make clothes that can charge your phone or protect you from toxins. Such fabrics ,seemingly out of science fiction, are being developed at the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the Alan G. MacDiarmid Nano Tech Institute at the University of Texas at Dallas.