People could soon “use their legs as touchscreens — swiping their thigh, say, to accept a phone call.” Google and Levis are teaming up to make computerized pants. (I tried wearing a pair of these, but I couldn’t stop calling myself.)

+ Virginia Postrel: Older than bronze and as new as nanowires, textiles are technology — and they have remade our world time and again.

+ “What if the glamour of a personal stylist and the celebration of data science merely distract from, rather than actually fix, the problems of women’s fashion.” Buzzfeed’s Anne Helen Petersen: Can Silicon Valley Fix Women’s Fashion? (It already fixed men’s fashion. All of us just wear t-shirts now.)