Anoop Rajappan, PhD, spearheaded the integration of “bits” of memory and computational capabilities into textiles with only air as the operational media—for the purpose of developing smart wearables. The article [PDF], published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was co-authored by many members of the PI Lab, including Barclay Jumet as the second author. Rice University posted an article with more detail that can be found here.
Building computers from textiles