Research
Wearable power uniform for soldiers
News about wearable power become a regular weekly topic on talk2myshirt as we have again found information of a new development in this field.
Britain’s Ministry of Defense awarded a research grant to Intelligent Textiles Limited, a British company specializing in wearable technology, to develop power fabrics that can power radios and other combat equipment soldiers [...]
Fiber Nanogenerators power up our future clothing
On a fairly regular basis researchers publish new findings around power generating textiles, a topic highly interesting for the wearable electronic community.
This time engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, created energy generating nanofibers that could one day be woven into textiles.
The nano-sized generators work on the ‘piezoelectric’ principle, converting kinetic energy through stretches and [...]
Wafer-thin plastic stores electricity
A recently published scientific development from researcher at the Imperial College London looks like another stepping stone towards wearable power.
The scientists created a super-capacitor in a flexible form by sandwiching a glass-fiber layer between two layers of carbon fibers which are covered with electricity conducting resign.
Super-capacitor, widely used in electronic products, have the property to [...]
Conductive Energy Textiles
Scientists at Stanford University, CA join the race for wearable power by developing ink from single-walled carbon nanotubes.
According to the scientists, everyday textiles like Cotton or Polyester fabrics can be electrified with an extremely simple “dipping and drying” process resulting in eTextiles with an excellent ability to store electricity.
Conductive ink impregnated textiles retain their flexibility [...]
MIT develops clothes to record abuses against women
MIT student Adam Whiton and clothing designer Yolita Nugent, lead a research project to develop clothing for women that will record data about an attack in real time and store that information on a computer.
The capturing of impact data on the wearer of this sensible clothing is done via sensors placed all over it. The [...]
Body Electronics
Wearable electronic is still in it’s early stage, make the first baby steps into the harsh world of commercialization but visionaries and researchers work already on the next big thing in getting electronics closer to our bodies, actually inside our bodies.
Having electronic implants is not new and some people depend their life on it with [...]
Sensible clothing stretches the imagination
Sensible, sensing clothing are a fascinating topic which has got the intention of a highly creative team which integrates Merlin Stretch Sensor into beautifully designed garment to sense the wearers movement. The movement data can then be used for various purposes like interaction with a garments appearance, interaction with other smart sensing garments or interaction [...]
Push-to-talk T-Shirt
Push-to-talk 2 my Shirt might not be as far away as we have imagined when giving our name to our wearable electronic community site back in 2006.
Finnish company Patria Aviation Oy has spent the past one and a half years to develop a flexible, fabric based antenna that can be integrated into a Shirt.
The project’s [...]
Wearable Power – battery made from from algae cellulose
Soft, flexible, wearable power is the stuff many scientist are working on, not only for the wearable electronic community as many other applications like to use bendable, sustainable, power providing sources for our devices on the go.
A group of scientist at the Uppsala University in Sweden led by scientist Albert Mihranyan try to develop light, [...]
Meaningful wearable electronics
During discussions around wearable electronic I am frequently challenged with the following questions: ‘Why should wearable electronic, clothing that contains some sort of electrically active technology be interesting for consumers? Why not using small electronic devices as we have already, why not using the ’sexy’ wireless technology to connect different devices in our pockets?‘
Instead [...]
