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    Smart Tablecloth can Find Fruit and Help with Watering the Plants Interactive fabric senses everyday non-metallic objects

    November 2, 2020, Categories  Physics, Technology/Electronics

    Avocado, grapefruit on a smart tablecloth
    The Capacitivo smart fabric can identify fruit and find lost objects. Overall, the system achieved a 94.5% accuracy in testing. Figure courtesy of XDiscovery Lab.

    Researchers have designed a smart fabric that can detect non-metallic objects ranging from avocadoes to credit cards, according to a study from Dartmouth College and Microsoft Research. The fabric, named Capacitivo, senses shifts in electrical charge to identify items of varying shapes and sizes.

    A study and demonstration video describing the sensing system were presented at the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2020).

    “This research has the potential to change the way people interact with computing through everyday soft objects made of fabrics,” said Xing-Dong Yang, an assistant professor of...

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