Smart Textiles

The LilyPad Arduino toolkit by Leah Buechley enables novices to design, engineer, and build their own electronic textiles. The tool not only lets artists and craftspeople experience computational design but also gives children (and grannies) a chance to develop longer-term interest in computing and engineering.
Click to visit the site
http://web.media.mit.edu/~leah/LilyPad/