The Cathedrals Fabric Commission for England, the national body overseeing certain types of work to cathedrals, will meet in January to discuss the cathedral's plans.

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Zhong Lin Wang, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, is tackling a new kind of power suit made from fabric that uses nanotechnology to generate energy as the body moves around.

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When Woodside, California, mom Dana Sanderson asked her daughter Kit, then 6, what would help her sleep alone, Kit decided she needed a bigger night-light and a "Mommy pillow, " a body pillow with her mom's image traced in fabric paint.

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The project - dubbed Karma Chameleon - involves weaving electronic fabric into clothes in a way that allows the storage of energy from the body.

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The shirt has six types of sensors woven into its fabric, and is able to monitor more than 40 signals from the wearer's body.

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