Time to change a diaper or car tire? Futuristic fabrics will let you know.

A new nonprofit will seek to speed the arrival of next-generation fabrics that can store energy, control their own temperature, change color and behave like computer sensors. MIT professor Yoel Fink, who is leading the effort, envisions the creation of an entire new industry: textiles for the 21st century.

“It’s really giving — for the first time since the beginning of history — fabrics a new meaning,” Fink said. “This stuff is hanging on you, but what value are you deriving from it?”

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