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 [...]
ITcares – smart textile monitoring for patients
Infos about the prototypes on stage during the Smart Textiles Salon keep coming thanks to our friends Lina Rambausek and Anne Schwarz who are busy to organize this event under the supervision of Prof. Lieva Van Langenhove at UGent.
Today’s project preview presents another approach to smart textile sensors based on silver-coated polyamide yarn knitted with [...]
OFSETH – smart textile sensors for healthcare
OFSETH (Optical Fiber Sensors Embedded into technical Textile for Health-care) is a European project of the 6th Framework Program and will be part of the Smart Textiles Salon prototype presentation in Ghent, a European workshop jointly organized by the European projects SysTex and Proetex.
The OFSETH project aims to develop optical fiber based sensors for health [...]
Knitted sensor patent awarded to SmartLife
SmartLife® Technology Ltd, a UK based Medical Technology Company with the aim to become a leading global provider in the field of wearable monitoring systems just got a step closer to achieve this aim by being awarded an international patent for a knitted ‘linear electronic transducer’ which is incorporated into a garment in order [...]
eTextile DIY – Proximity Sensing Fabric
This weeks eTextile DIY project introduction comes from Adrian Freed, Research Director at CNMAT (Center for New Music and Audio Technology) who is by the way organizing the Interactive e-textile Workshop with Arduino LilyPad (still some places left for the August session).
The Proximity Sensing Fabric project is demonstrating how interactive fashion designer could recreate the [...]
The Digital world at your fingertips
Plusea aka Hannah Perner-Wilson is one of the most active wearable technologists judging on the amount of her DIY instructions especially around textile sensors and interactive clothing for performing artists.
Her most recent creation posted on YouTube is the ‘Sensitive Fingertips‘ (see embedded video below) a glove containing pressure sensors on each finger tip allowing the [...]
Stretchable textile pressure sensors for better product design
Pressure Profile Systems, Inc. started in 1996 as a commercial spin-off from Harvard University to design, develop and manufacture high performance multi-element pressure and tactile sensing systems.
Their latest commercially available product is the FingerTPS(TM) (Finger Tactile Pressure Sensing). Flexible sensors are worn on the hand and transmit accurate, repeatable tactile force data to a [...]
Smart clothes: textiles that track your health
Garments that measure the heart rate have been on the market for some time. Made of intelligent textiles, those sensors stand out over other solutions with their excellent wearability, they are soft as textiles are.
Textile based sensors provide a much higher wearing comfort: everything you need to to is to put on a shirt. [...]
