Smart-Textiles-Salon
And the winner of the Smart Textile Salon Student Award 2009 is: Laura Wilson
Today is not only the day wearable electronic experts and enthusiasts meet at the Smart Textile Salon in Ghent, Belgium but also the day where Laura Wilson will present her SysTex Student Award 2009 winning project, the ‘Celestial Hybrid’.
Laura Wilson, currently completing her final year of her degree in Printed Textiles, Fashion and Fibre at [...]
Electrically conductive textile platform
EMPA – an interdisciplinary research and services institution for material sciences and technology development within the ETH Domain will present this Friday at the Smart Textiles Salon in Ghent, the ‘Conducting textile platform based on novel e-fibers’.
There are different technologies and processes to create electrical conductive fibers and yarns, some use fine silver wires [...]
Electroluminescent textiles
The magic of illuminating textiles seems to be one of the focus points during the upcoming Smart Textiles Salon in Ghent, the jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex.
Spain based technology center Cetemmsa, with over 18 years of experience in carrying out applied research on smart materials will present their textile [...]
Temperature sensitive, Transitional textiles
Visitors to the Smart Textiles Salon in Ghent, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex will see a highly interesting prototype called ‘Transitional Stripes‘, a technology exploration into color changing textiles.
The ‘Transitional Stripes‘ are the result of an AHRC funded project by Robert M Christie, Sarah Taylor and presented [...]
ITcares – smart textile monitoring for patients
Infos about the prototypes on stage during the Smart Textiles Salon keep coming thanks to our friends Lina Rambausek and Anne Schwarz who are busy to organize this event under the supervision of Prof. Lieva Van Langenhove at UGent.
Today’s project preview presents another approach to smart textile sensors based on silver-coated polyamide yarn knitted with [...]
OFSETH – smart textile sensors for healthcare
OFSETH (Optical Fiber Sensors Embedded into technical Textile for Health-care) is a European project of the 6th Framework Program and will be part of the Smart Textiles Salon prototype presentation in Ghent, a European workshop jointly organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex.
The OFSETH project aims to develop optical fiber based sensors for health [...]
Merging the physical and virtual space – Emotion Jacket
A team of Philips Electronics scientist will present their Emotion Jacket at the Smart Textiles Salon in Ghent, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex.
The emotion jacket is loaded with 64 independently controlled vibration motors distributed across the arms and torso. The actuators of the motors are capable of cycling [...]
Final agenda for the Smart Textiles Salon
The hard work of the team organizing the Smart Textiles Salon, trying to get the best of the best to offer in the smart textiles arena, has finalized and released the agenda for this event which will be held later this month (Sept 22) in Ghent, a jointed European workshop organized by the European [...]
Pressure activated, Illuminated Fabric
Our next prototype introduction for the ‘Smart Textile Salon‘, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex comes from Riccardo Marchesi, Managing Director of InnTex, an Italian based textiles and textiles machinery company which is exploring the new area of Smart Textiles.
Riccardo will present the Pressure activated, Electroluminescent (EL) fabrics he [...]
SHHH… Amplifying Textiles
Today’s sneak peek on the prototype which will be shown during the ‘Smart Textile Salon‘, a jointed European workshop organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex on Sept 25th in Ghent, Belgium, is SHHH… Amplifying Textiles from German textile and surface designer Berit Greinke.
Recently graduated from the MA Design for Textile Futures at Central [...]
