Technologies
Luminous textile ribbon
We got word from a Taiwanese manufacturer who has developed a textile ribbon using a new, low resistant electrically conductive yarn with LEDs mounted on a ribbon which can be cut to sizes as needed and then connected to a control and power supply unit to light up this textile string.
Our source told us this [...]
iLume – soft light modules for garments and bags
Fibretronic launched a new range of high brightness LED products designed for lighting applications in outerwear, bags and other wearable accessories.
The lighting range, which Fibretronic is selling under the ‘i-Lume‘ brand, includes light emitting buttons which can be sewn or bonded into clothing to add high visibility features.
Pressing the buttons will turn the light [...]
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 [...]
iCalm – Comfortable, Wearable, Wireless Bio-Sensing
MIT’s Media Lab is without question one of the hot spots for research and pioneering wearable technologies since it’s very early stage. No wonder that many of the innovative companies in this field are coming directly out of their laboratories.
One of the latest start-up company in the wearable technology field is Affectiva, a Waltham-based company [...]
Wearable CO2 sensor
Following up on the release of the Smart Textile Saloon exhibition list released last week, I am collecting more information (where available) about the projects on stage.
The wearable CO2 sensor, developed by Tanja Radu, Cormac Fay, King Tong Lau and Dermot Diamond at CLARITY (Centre for Sensor Web Technologies at Dublin City University) is a [...]
Human Synthesizer – textile display from Philips Lumalive
Philips Lumalive commissioned a new promo video for their LED based light emitting textile technology.
The video, called ‘Human Synthesizer‘, made by made by Jasmin Jodry from th1ng, visually explains the benefits of transforming garments into communication platforms via the Lumalive textile display.
Up to now Philips Lumalive technology has been marketed only towards the promotion [...]
NeonString for illuminated fashion design
Triggered by a question from one of our dear readers about possible technologies usable to add light-up elements to clothing designs, I have been looking around if there is anything else next to Photochromic yarns or the glow-in-the-dark yarns which both need light to trigger the color change.
EL-foil technology is another option providing a very [...]
Give your T-Shirt a color charge
Connecting to our article about color changing embroidery thread based on the Thermochromatic principle using bright light for the color change, we found another interesting, color altering embroidery thread based on the glow-in-the-dark technology.
Glow-in-the-dark products contain usually phosphors, a substance that radiates visible light after being energized and give off this energy as visible light.
The [...]
SolarStrap – wearable solar power module
Finland based Suntrica is a young company exploring the possibilities of thin, lightweight solar panels as wearable add-on solution for clothing and bags.
An interesting idea as such self-containing add-on module allows to quickly and easily move it from one bag to another, leave it at home when no sun is shining.
Personally I like the integration [...]
FIR – Far Infrared clothing
It might not seem to be the best time of the year to talk about heated clothing but I learned recently about an advanced textile technology, the Far Infrared (FIR) fibers which are not only used as textile heating elements in cold weather clothing but they are widely used in the therapeutically clothing segment as [...]
