Trade Shows
TechTextile trade show impressions
Coming back tired but energized from the great things I have seen around wearable electronic during a full day of walking and talking with interesting people in the smart textile area of the TechTextil trade show in Frankfurt, Germany, here are my first impressions:
The floor area dedicated for wearable electronic has been a bit smaller [...]
TechTextil – the innovative interchange
techtextil, one of Europe’s largest trade fairs around textile innovation will, like in the past few years, cover Smart Textiles, showcasing innovative apparel textiles, future-oriented clothing and visionary prototypes under the slogan ‘the innovative interchange‘.
Innovative interchange opportunities are provided not only by visiting the 1000+ exhibitors on the show floor but also in parallel organized [...]
Wearable Technologies: Sport meets new technology on ispo winter 2008
The 2008 Wearable Electronic event calendar kicks off next weekend (Jan 27-30) with the ispo winter 08 in Munich, Germany.
About 20 exhibitors will present their textile technological product innovations on 250 square meters in hall A6.118. As in the previous years, the winter ispo event is a good indicator on what is coming up [...]
Fashion meets Technology on IFA 2007
Fashion meets Technology again during IFA 2007 between Aug 31 and Sept 5 in Berlin/Germany. IFA is the world largest Consumer Electronic Show and Wearable Electronic will have a strong presents during this event.
The Smart Textiles Interessengemeinschaft, a community that represents the interests of producers and developers from the application fields of fashion, sports, workwear [...]
e-textiles on IFAI Expo 2007
Wearable Electronic takes center stage during the upcoming IFAI Expo 2007 from Oct. 3-5, 2007, in Las Vegas, USA.
IFAI stands for Industrial Fabrics Association International and is the most important textile industry event of 2007.
Especially interesting for us is the E-Textiles symposium which is part of IFAI. This symposium will have prominent speakers from the [...]
Smart Textiles on stage during CPD trade fair
Wearable Electronic and Smart Textiles will be again on stage between July 22 and 24 during the CPD, a International Trade Fair for Womenswear and Accessories in Düsseldorf / Germany.
With 1,050 exhibitors representing a total of more than 1,430 brands from 38 countries, CPD Womenswear and Accessories is one of the biggest events in [...]
ISPO Sport & Style – where fashion meets technology
Wearable Electronic takes again center stage for the third consecutive month. In May was the Smart Fabrics, this month the Avantex and coming month the ISPO Sport & Style in Munich / Germany.
Between July 8-10, the 1st Wearable Technologies congress “Where fashion meets technology” will be held in parallel with the sports equipment and fashion [...]
Avantex wrap-up, Wearable Electronics is BIG
Never before have been so many experts and companies in the field of Wearable Electronic, e-textiles or Intelligent clothing (to give it a name) together on one place to share information about research activities, show the latest and finest design concepts and products – yes, real world products and not just ideas ‘to-be-realized’.
Not to forget, [...]
Avantex show floor – Wearable Electronics is (be)coming BIG
I have spend today walking the show floor of Avantex 2007 in Frankfurt to give you a first impression of the many many models on display.
Avantex is focusing on the visualization but also on the practical aspects of innovative and future clothing. Techtextil which is next door, is mainly focused on the manufacturing part of [...]
Eleksen introduces FM Radio with textile controls
Avantex started off today and Eleksen, the world’s leading provider of touch-sensitive smart fabrics for consumer electronics in apparel and accessories, announced a new product: a module for FM radio.
This new module essentially is a stand-alone FM radio but has also the availability to work with the widely available FM transmitter accessories out there which [...]
