Designers are experimenting with AI to make clothes and footwear more interactive

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Toronto-based start-up Aurmada is designing AI-enhanced clothing that it hopes will help those wearing it monitor everything from their gait to how close someone is standing, part of a budding wearable-technology industry that is experimenting with making clothes more interactive.