DIY – Fabric Display

Fabric Light-Bright is an amazing textile display project from Eli Skipp of Pumping Station One, a first class hacking community in Chicago. I have never seen before such a simple yet highly unique eTextile design. Simple in it’s functionality as [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


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 [...]


e_Static Shadows – textile display visualizes electro static

‘e-Static Shadows‘ is a research project by designer Dr. Zane Berzina and architect Jackson Tan which creatively explores the speculative and poetic potential of static electricity found in our everyday environments, surrounding our everyday interactions. The aim of the project [...]


Flexible Led Curtain

Beijing based Huasun Optoelectronic Science Co. selling a ‘made to order’ Flexible Led Curtain which looks and acts like a textile display. Hanging on a wall or dividing a room this Flexible Led Curtain gives the amazing effect of a [...]


DIY textile display – Embroidered LED matrix

Another amazing way on how to ‘soften electronic’ or should I say ‘electrify textiles’ has been worked out by Leah Buechley, an Embroidered LED matrix providing a soft display for your next outfit. Leah’s ‘proof of concept’ demonstrates how to [...]