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Smart clothing coming sooner than you think and Rice engineers are helping build it
January 20, 2026
HOUSTON, Texas, Jan. 20 -- Rice University posted the following news release:

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Smart clothing coming sooner than you think and Rice engineers are helping build it

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When everyday clothes can quietly support your back during a long work shift, help you rise from a chair or steady your balance on a crowded bus, assistive technology stops looking like a medical device and starts feeling like life. That's the vision driving a new multimil . . .

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