Smart clothes. Going forward, we posit that smart clothes are the next logical step. Embedding sensors into clothes is the best
way to make sensing truly pervasive, as everyone wears clothes. The uptake of smart clothes was already predicted by Steve
Mann in 1996 [117], and there have already been many research contributions in this sense, as well as commercial products.
There was a significant level of interest in the research community at the turn of the century, when catchy expressions
such as washable computing and e-broidery were minted [118]. Various studies have targeted smart shirts for healthcare
monitoring, beginning with Georgia Tech’s efforts in the early years of the past decade [119].