I don't think fabric PCs or e-book readers will catch on, until you can just put them in a washing machine to clean them. Can you imagine how much filth and grime a fabric keyboard would accrue? Putting it in the washing machine isn't quite as stupid as it sounds. There's a model of keyboard that rolls up like a seatbelt, which you can put in a washing machine. Of course, for it to work for a full computer, the hardware would have to be changed to a more malleable form, instead of stiff cards. This would probably result in lower spec hardware, but in an ebook reader, that's not a huge concern.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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I don't think fabric PCs or e-book readers will catch on, until you can just put them in a washing machine to clean them. Can you imagine how much filth and grime a fabric keyboard would accrue? Putting it in the washing machine isn't quite as stupid as it sounds. There's a model of keyboard that rolls up like a seatbelt, which you can put in a washing machine. Of course, for it to work for a full computer, the hardware would have to be changed to a more malleable form, instead of stiff cards. This would probably result in lower spec hardware, but in an ebook reader, that's not a huge concern.