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For those who find taking a phone out of their pocket just so last century

Researchers in Singapore have developed an electronic fabric they claim can be woven into garments to create a new form of graphical user interface (GUI), for people who find retrieving a device from their pocket too much effort.

The development could lead - at some point - to a "future in which clothing functions as a pervasive, multimodal human–computer interface," according to the study published in peer-reviewed science journal Nature this week.

The paper shows someone interacting with computing devices using the sleeve of a wool sweater (no jokes about the Windows ugly sweater please, this is serious).…