A T-shirt that monitors a patient’s vital signs after urological surgery for cancer could help people return from hospital sooner to recover at home.
A research team from the Nano Hybrid Technology Research Center of the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute has fabricated “functional wires”, which are the foundation of…
Researchers at University of Tartu’s Institute of Technology, Estonia, have unveiled a robotics concept that is said to redefine adaptability by literally weaving its body…
A team of researchers from Nottingham Trent University, UK, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany, and the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, has created washable and durable magnetic…
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed an autonomous programmable computer in the form of an elastic fibre that could monitor health conditions…
A research team led by the Department of Applied Biology and Chemical Technology, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, has developed an innovative approach that utilises liquid…
A group of Loughborough University academics have proved a new theory that aims to improve how a novel technology turns movement into electricity.
Voormi (pronounced “voor-me”) received a CES 2025 Innovation Award in the Fashion Technology category for its wearable technology, Mij (pronounced “me”), which pioneers a new…
Researchers have developed comfortable, washable “smart pyjamas” that can monitor sleep disorders such as sleep apnoea at home, without the need for sticky patches, cumbersome…
Hong Kong-based researchers have designed and tested a smart jacket equipped with environmental sensors, heat-generating and colour-changing yarns, and artificial intelligence (AI) to control temperature…
Researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati, India, have developed a water-repellent, conductive textile that converts electricity and sunlight into heat.
A team of US engineers at the California Institute of Technology has developed a technique for inkjet printing arrays of special nanoparticles that enables the…
Dingelstädt, Germany-based technical knitting company Born has acquired MotorSkins, which produces innovative soft robotic, fluid-driven textiles.
Researchers at Cornell University have developed photovoltaic panels that comprise a hinged, lightweight fabric that can wrap around complex shapes, even contorting its form to…
A team of engineers and materials scientists from the US has found that holes of a certain size and shape strategically placed in certain locations…
Loomia Technologies, a developer of electronic textiles and flexible electronics, and Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), a US non-profit public-private partnership and manufacturing innovation…