The thought that clothing should give something back to the wearer--the ability to keep track of athletic performance or store energy that can be used for electronics--is fairly new. The concept of clothing that can help keep the wearer healthy, well, that still sounds like pseudoscience. Celliant, a company that wants to be "Intel Inside of responsive textiles," aims to change that.
Celliant has been around for a decade, but it's only in the last year that it has teamed up with major sportswear companies like Reebok, Adidas, and Saucony to spread the responsive textile gospel. These companies all sell athletic apparel containing Celliant technology--or, as Reebok calls them, "performance-driven Celliant fibers."
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