Science
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Visionary clothing
We have covered many times the advantage wearable technologies can bring to us and our clothing by using it’s potential for sensor inclusion as a second skin, extending our sensory ability.
A resent development by a team of researchers at MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering led by Associate Professor Yoel Fink could add a [...]
iLED – the next wearable display
While OLEDs are the hype of today when it comes to flexible, bright and colorful displays able to be integrated into clothing, a team of scientist is already working on the next big technology which could change the rule of the wearable display game.
OLEDs (organic light-emitting diodes) offer faster refresh rates and brighter colors than [...]
The future of wearable power – printable batteries?
Wearable power, one of the hottest researched topics in the wearable electronic field got another boost from researchers at the Fraunhofer Research Institution for Electronic Nano Systems EANS together with colleagues from TU Chemnitz and Menippos GmbH.
The research team led by Prof. Dr. Reinhard Baumann developed batteries that can be printed using a silk-screen printing [...]
Solar fiber – another step towards photovoltaic textiles
Many of us dream of getting electrical energy not only free of charge but also have it available in the remotest areas of our world. Even better, if everyday objects like our clothing can constantly and continuously keep our pockets full of electrical gadgets powered forever, it would feel like the digital heaven on earth.
To [...]
Wearable electronic science – flexible electronics
Transforming silicon based, rigid electronic components into soft, flexible elements is one of the corner stones on the way to more complex wearable electronic technology.
Currently e-textile components circling around passive – electronically speaking – components like conductive yarns for data and power transmission through clothing, electrically conductive fabric for sensors and switches or used for [...]
