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Japan's Tsuya Textile Co., in conjunction with the Fukui Engineering Center, has developed Delight Cloth, a "light-emitting textile" made from superthin fiber optic strands woven into a sort of tapestry. But while it's light-emitting, it's not light-generating--you need to hook up a 100W or 150W halogen to one or both ends of the fabric depending on what effect you want to achieve. You can even add a color controller and get a variety of colors, and yes, the technology can be integrated into clothing (though no word on where you hide the lightbulbs).

Delight Cloth is one of the featured materials in the recently-released Transmaterial 3: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment.

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