E-Textiles

I' ve just read an article about e-textiles, smart textiles, which, frankly has provoked in me a lot of annoyance, to stay very polite and to say the least.
Why do people constantly refer to those as being the latest gadgets?
A/Because most of the wearable technology is not very sexy and looks like a gadget, mainly because it has been thought and made by engineers rather than designer. Engineer are doing a great job technology wise but they should really be paired up with a Designer preferably a Textile Designer.
B/ They are only the beginning of an idea, most of them wont even hit the high-street as no one is ready for this big revolution. We are all very hooked on technology today but we are not yet ready to be part of a sci-fi movie.
C/ No matter what we say we have to admit, we are after aesthetic more than functionality. When Aesthetics and Functionality come together we will have hit it very high and its almost perfection, again I'm referring to e-textiles (as I am aware that we already have a few products out there which have both).
My annoyance comes merely from reading articles where they criticize e-textiles without giving any solutions or suggestions on how they would like to see those smart textiles evolve.
My point being see the bigger picture.
As a Textile designer I'm currently working and have worked in the field of smart textiles, and I am confronted constantly to the aesthetic issues as well as making a fabric which isn't a gadget though there is technology embedded in it and serves a real purpose.
Moreover I'm also now confronting the critical question of Can a Smart Textile be sustainable?