Read the text and answer the questions that follow. CLOTHES TEXT A team of British scientists is developing 'intelligent' clothes that will give disabled children the power of 'speech'. Children wearing waistcoats made of a unique electrotextile, linked to a speech synthesiser, will be able to make themselves understood simply by tapping on the touch-sensitive material. The material is made up of normal cloth and an ingenious mesh of carbonimpregnated fibres that can conduct electricity. When pressure is applied to the fabric, the pattern of signals that passes through the conducting fibres is altered and a computer chip can work out where the cloth has been touched. It then can trigger whatever electronic device is attached to it, which could be no bigger than two boxes of matches. 'The smart bit is in how we weave the fabric and how we send signals through it – and we can weave it into existing fabric designs so you cannot see it's in there,' says one of the scientists. Without being damaged, the material can be washed, wrapped around objects or scrunched up. The scientist also claims it can be mass-produced cheaply. Source: Steve Farrer, `Interactive fabric promises a material gift of the garb', The Australian, 10 August 1998. .............................................................................. QUESTION 6.1 Can these claims made in the article be tested through scientific investigation in the laboratory? Circle either 'Yes' or 'No' for each. (Note: Answer this part of the question in your notebook) The material can be - Can the claim be tested through scientific investigation in the laboratory? washed without being damaged. - Yes / No wrapped around objects without being damaged. - Yes / No scrunched up without being damaged. - Yes / No mass-produced cheaply. - Yes / No
Read the text and answer the questions that follow.
CLOTHES TEXT
A team of British scientists is developing 'intelligent' clothes that will give disabled children the power of 'speech'. Children wearing waistcoats made of a unique electrotextile, linked to a speech synthesiser, will be able to make themselves understood simply by tapping on the touch-sensitive material.
The material is made up of normal cloth and an ingenious mesh of carbonimpregnated fibres that can conduct electricity. When pressure is applied to the fabric, the pattern of signals that passes through the conducting fibres is altered and a computer chip can work out where the cloth has been touched. It then can trigger whatever electronic device is attached to it, which could be no bigger than two boxes of matches.
'The smart bit is in how we weave the fabric and how we send signals through it – and we can weave it into existing fabric designs so you cannot see it's in there,' says one of the scientists.
Without being damaged, the material can be washed, wrapped around objects or scrunched up. The scientist also claims it can be mass-produced cheaply.
Source: Steve Farrer, `Interactive fabric promises a material gift of the garb', The Australian, 10 August 1998.
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QUESTION 6.1
Can these claims made in the article be tested through scientific investigation in the laboratory? Circle either 'Yes' or 'No' for each. (Note: Answer this part of the question in your notebook)
The material can be - Can the claim be tested through scientific investigation in the laboratory? washed without being damaged. - Yes / No wrapped around objects without being damaged. - Yes / No scrunched up without being damaged. - Yes / No mass-produced cheaply. - Yes / No
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