Single fibre enables acoustic fabrics via nanometre-scale vibrations - Nature.com

A piezoelectric fibre woven into a machine-washable fabric converts tenuous sound pressure into electric signals and is used to listen to cardiac sound, determine the source direction of a sound, and record and play back audio.

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