Category: Research
Communication glove for deaf-blind persons
We have seen a number of wearable tech enhanced gloves supporting the communication between deaf persons and persons who do not understand well the sign language. Such gloves contain sensors which detect gestures and translate this signals into speech. Researchers [...]
Smart Clothing to be Safe@Sea
Safe@Sea is a European Union funded project looking for solutions to eliminate the high causality rate of fisherman at sea. Fishing is among one of the most dangerous professions especially in bad weather on small boats. Far too often a [...]
Electrifying Fabrics
Wearable power is on the top of my search list and each time I stumble across news out of the research kitchen I can not help but to share the latest news. Undeniable, wearable power, using materials that act and [...]
Power Felt – a wearable power generator
Imagine your clothing charges all your smart devices by just putting them into a pocket. Imagine you do not have to do anything to generate the electrical power – no need to run around, just sit there and let the [...]
Cotton Transistors
Mastering a truly seamless integration of electronic functionality into fabrics remains a challenge up to this day. Most experiments and design concepts use hybrid solutions ranging form detachable, add-on wearable electronic functionality to semi integrated solutions where part of the [...]
Charging up Smart Fabrics with a woven battery
Wearable Power, the seamless, unobtrusive integration of electrical power storage or generation into woven structures – speak fabrics – is a highly active area in wearable tech research and development. A team of scientists at the Polytechnic School of Montreal, [...]
Antenna clothing
Researcher at the Ohio State University focus on antenna integration into clothing using plastic film and metallic thread. The potential benefit of doing so is the increase of four times of the antenna range compared to a conventional antenna. Currently [...]
