Category: e-Textiles
Textile illumination – Delight Cloth
Based on the feedback we receive on talk2myShirt and my personal experience, illuminated textiles, be it for clothing or interior design, never fails to trigger instant, highly emotionally charged reactions from everyone around when seeing textile objects suddenly light up, [...]
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 [...]
Interactive Wear e-Textile designer kit
I was able to talk during my TechTextil visit in frankfurt with Jürgen Thalmayer from Interactive Wear about the recent launch of their e-Textile designer kit. Interactive Wear is not planning at this moment to open a online store on [...]
The next step to Wearable Electronic: Stretchable Electronic
For a seamless integration of electronic into clothing solutions have to be found that conform with the surrounding material, in the case of Wearable Electronic this means with textiles. Most textiles are stretchable, at least to a certain extend. If [...]
Textronics gives Smart Textiles and fitness apparel a new dimension
Textronics Inc. the innovator and creator of the NuMetrex fitness apparel collection is giving the term ‘Smart Textiles’ and Heart rate monitoring for training, fitness and health care a complete new meaning. Textronics has been recently awarded a patent for [...]
The Reconfigurable Costume from Leah Buechley
Leah Buechley showed us how to make truly textile electronic elements with her e-textile construction kit. Now Leah shows us how this technology can be used to create almost ‘out of this world’ clothing: a reconfigurable costume. The costume consists [...]
Musical Textile
We are always on the look out for enhanced textiles, textiles with added functionality, in short: Smart Textiles. The Music Textile created by Maurin Donneaud (Industrial designer) and Vincent Roudaut (Interaction designer) is a highly interesting concept. The Musical textile [...]
