Category: Articles
Innovative, interactive fashion design from Novanex
During my TechTextil visit I had the opportunity for a short talk with Alexandra Baum, owner and general manager of Germany based Novanex, a design company specialized in design, product development and manufacture of innovative textiles. Although her services are [...]
Plug-and-Wear: One-stop-shop for eTextile crafters
Plug-and-Wear, a one-stop-shop offering materials and components specifically targeted to eTextile creators has opened it’s shopping doors. Plug-and-Wear is the brain child of Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company with 55+ years [...]
Intelligent Textiles for the digital soldier
Another highly interesting company I have visited during the TechTextile is ITL (Intelligent Textiles Limited) a UK based research and development company founded in 2002 specialized in the weaving of complex electrical circuits in conductive fabrics. Starting in the traditional [...]
TechTextile trade show impressions
Coming back tired but energized from the great things I have seen around wearable electronic during a full day of walking and talking with interesting people in the smart textile area of the TechTextil trade show in Frankfurt, Germany, here [...]
Early pioneers of wearable electronic
Fibretronic, creator and manufacturer of soft controls for interactive clothing and fashion accessories has started a review of wearable electronic, a trend that started about 10 years ago with the introduction of the first commercially available product in 2000 by [...]
Staying connected with the WiFi T-Shirt
talk2myShirt is on the way to a 4 week trip around Europe and will hit areas where Internet access is very spotty at times making it difficult to stay connected with the World Wide Wearable electronic community during those days. [...]
Wearable knee power generator
Wearable power is a hot research item which got high profile sponsorship last year with the Wearable Power Price from the Department of Defense. The Electricity generating knee brace from a team of researchers of the University of Michigan has [...]
