Detectair – Air pollution sensing clothing
One of the most interesting aspect of smart, sensible clothing is the integration of sensors that visualize environmental conditions we cant’s see or smell easily or to visualize such parameters to warn us when they reach health threatening levels.
The Breathless Corset and the Climate Dress both have sensors that detect and indicate high levels of [...]
iTouch gloves
Just in time at the eve of the iPad launch, new gloves technology could be seen on the MacWorld last week.
iTouch gloves are different to all the other touch screen compatible gloves we have seen so far. The iTouch leather gloves don’t have any style interrupting dots or conductive squares that make the fingertips conduct [...]
Sensible clothing stretches the imagination
Sensible, sensing clothing are a fascinating topic which has got the intention of a highly creative team which integrates Merlin Stretch Sensor into beautifully designed garment to sense the wearers movement. The movement data can then be used for various purposes like interaction with a garments appearance, interaction with other smart sensing garments or interaction [...]
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 [...]
Smart eTextile Solutions seminar at IFAI 2009
IFAI, the largest trade show in the Americas devoted to technical and specialty fabrics opens the doors between Sept. 23 – 25 in San Diego, CA. Organized as a pre-IFAI event, the Smart eTextile Solutions is taking place on Sept. 22, from 8:30am – 6:30pm
Like in the past few years, IFAI continuous to [...]
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 [...]
SysTex rewards students’ work in the field of wearable electronic
SysTex, a European project within the Seventh Framework program for research and technological development in the field of e-textiles and wearable electronics in Europe is organizing the SYSTEX STUDENT AWARD.
Eligible for the SYSTEX STUDENT AWARD are thesis’ or projects at European universities, research institutes and companies. The award will be given to the student [...]
Interactive clothing made in Sweden
Lena Berglin, researcher at the Swedish School of Textiles and FOV Fabrics AB in Borås loves to combine technology and textiles to create smart, interactive clothing.
Her love started at the turn of the millennium when she dismantled two interactive products, among them an intelligent glove, capable of transmitting communication.
This experience and the following re-assambly of [...]
Show your great Smart Textile project
The organizer of the Smart Textiles Salon are still looking for your latest, greatest wearable electronic creation and have extended the dateline for submission of your work.
If you have just finished a new project or like to show your exiting demonstrator to a wider audience submit is together with a written abstract of maximum 200 [...]
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 [...]
