It's so cold now, but this morning it was so hot and sunny. I wish there was a way I could always be wearing the most suitable clothes for the temperature.
I recently read that in ten years we'll be wearing clothes that change with the weather. So when it's cold, our clothes will warm up, and when it's hot, our clothes will cool off.
Oh, very funny! So we'll be wearing huge clothes with built-in air-conditioners and heaters.
I'm serious. Researchers have discovered a method of treating fibers with plastic crystals which can store and release heat as the temperature changes. These treated fibers absorb more heat than untreated fibers. Researchers are still working with this, but soon this process will be widespredad.
That's fascinating. I didn't know that fibers can store heat. How does that work?
These fibers work with the heat by rearranging their structures.