Category: Science
Stretchable Electronic Skin
A team of Nokia researchers working at Cambridge working on a morphing, stretchable face of next generation phones but this technology is also highly interesting for wearable electronic, to integrate complex electronic functionality into our second skin = our clothing. [...]
Translator shirt
Visionaries at Bayer, a German high tech company directed their research power on photovoltaic according to a recently published press release. The for us noticeable statement can be found towards the end of the press release stating ‘In future, photovoltaic [...]
Wearable Power – the body as power station
Next to interactive gloves, wearable power is coming into the news on a regular, frequent basis. The latest news I picked up is based on research work at the University of Southampton where scientists aim to generate energy through people’s [...]
Graphene OPV – wearable sun-power within reach?
Professor Chongwu Zhou and his team of researcher at the University of Southern California produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that have great potential for a new breed of solar cells suitable to be integrated into garments. Graphene OPV (organic [...]
Smart Textiles: Weaving with electronics
Most wearable electronic development we see today are made by attaching either permanently or removable electronic functionality. This concept has it’s usefulness in some areas but the ultimate break through in wearable electronic will be by fully integrating electronics into [...]
Electronic Fiber
Staying a bit in the fiber since field today’s article is about a development coming from Jian Feng Gu at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Mr. Jian Feng Gu and his team work on a simple [...]
Textile science: Fibers that can hear and sing
In the old days making fibers was a relative simple matter, creating yarn and weave them to clothes. But these days are numbered with the emergence of intelligent fibers and textiles. Fiber development migrated in our digital age to electronic [...]
