Tag: Smart fabrics
Smart Textile Fibers Powered By Soft Transmission Lines Measure Wearer’s Health
At the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), researchers have developed electronic fibers that, when embedded in textiles, can collect a wealth of...
Google’s Project Jacquard is Back with Yves Saint Laurent Backpack
Google’s touch-sensitive fabric technology Project Jacquard is back with a new product – the Cit-E smart backpack – a touch-sensitive shoulder strap for controlling...
RMIT Researchers Develop Self-Powering Smart Fabric Using Laser Printing Technology
The growing smart fabrics industry has diverse applications in wearable devices for the consumer, health care and defense sectors - from monitoring vital signs...
PolyU Researchers Develop Flexible High-Energy Textile Lithium Battery for Wearables
Scientists at the Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) at Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have created a lightweight, highly flexible and high-energy Textile...
Pireta Aims to Make Smart Clothes Truly Wearable
Smart clothes found in the market today have sensors sticking out of them in various places, making them cumbersome and not really “wearable.”
Pireta, a...
Myant-FCAD Partnership to Develop Innovative Applications in Textile Computing
Toronto-based Myant Inc., the world's first end-to-end textile computing company, and Ryerson University’s FCAD, Canada’s leading creative innovation hub, formed a partnership to create...