Smart, electronic textiles
The following text is taken from the research work from R. B. Katragadda and Y. Xu, “A Novel Intelligent Textile Technology Based on Silicon Flexible Skins”, Proceeding of the International symposium...
View ArticleWake-up with illuminated duvet
The northern hemisphere is almost through the winter season which naturally means all those folks are deprived of sunlight or light in general. Daylight can be as short as 6 hours or even less. The...
View ArticleAuto-snug clothing – really smart fabrics
It seems Philips is going into the fashion and textile business. First there was the ICD+ Jacket together with Levi, then the Lumalive textile display last September and now a really smart fabric....
View ArticleMusical Textile
We are always on the look out for enhanced textiles, textiles with added functionality, in short: Smart Textiles. The Music Textile created by Maurin Donneaud (Industrial designer) and Vincent Roudaut...
View ArticleThe Reconfigurable Costume from Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley showed us how to make truly textile electronic elements with her e-textile construction kit. Now Leah shows us how this technology can be used to create almost ‘out of this world’...
View ArticleTextronics gives Smart Textiles and fitness apparel a new dimension
Textronics Inc. the innovator and creator of the NuMetrex fitness apparel collection is giving the term ‘Smart Textiles’ and Heart rate monitoring for training, fitness and health care a complete new...
View ArticleThe next step to Wearable Electronic: Stretchable Electronic
For a seamless integration of electronic into clothing solutions have to be found that conform with the surrounding material, in the case of Wearable Electronic this means with textiles. Most textiles...
View ArticleInteractive Wear e-Textile designer kit
I was able to talk during my TechTextil visit in frankfurt with Jürgen Thalmayer from Interactive Wear about the recent launch of their e-Textile designer kit. Interactive Wear is not planning at this...
View ArticleLuminous textile ribbon
We got word from a Taiwanese manufacturer who has developed a textile ribbon using a new, low resistant electrically conductive yarn with LEDs mounted on a ribbon which can be cut to sizes as needed...
View ArticleTextile illumination – Delight Cloth
Based on the feedback we receive on talk2myShirt and my personal experience, illuminated textiles, be it for clothing or interior design, never fails to trigger instant, highly emotionally charged...
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