Research
Smart designed Solar power Clothing
Solar jackets and bags are hot items, they are in line with our increased environmental awareness and can give us the extra hour of talk time or Net surfing we need so baldly for our digital life.
Integrating solar cells into clothing or bags can be a style challenge as those solar cells come mostly in [...]
Design for Wearability
Digging around in our library I found an interesting report from the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University on Design for Wearability.
This research has been done ten years ago and is a excellent guide for designers, students and hobbyists who want to find the best place to integrate technical elements into clothing.
The [...]
e-Textile pants can improve the lifestyle for elderly
We have pointed out in the past ththe high value e-textiles and wearable technologies have to help improving the lifestyle of persons requiring medical treatment, rehabilitation after medical treatment and enhancing the life style of elderly persons by assisting declining body functions.
Without wearable technologies many of this persons are confined to rooms or stationary monitoring. [...]
Smart clothes: textiles that track your health
Garments that measure the heart rate have been on the market for some time. Made of intelligent textiles, those sensors stand out over other solutions with their excellent wearability, they are soft as textiles are.
Textile based sensors provide a much higher wearing comfort: everything you need to to is to put on a shirt. [...]
Wearable tactile display
We interact in the real, physical world in many different ways like seeing (visual), hearing (audio), taste, smell (olfaction) and touch (tactile).
Our interaction with the virtual world is comparatively limited mostly to visual and audio and in some cases tactile like some video game controller.
A Wearable Tactile Display could add the touch dimension to [...]
