Category: Smart Textiles

UK-based outerwear brand Vollebak has launched the Firefly Jacket that changes its hue from copper orange during the day or indoors to yellow-green at night...

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University Singapore have developed ultra-thin semiconductor fibres that can be woven into fabrics, turning them into smart wearable electronics.

German textile machine builder Karl Mayer has delivered an MJ 52/1 S warp knitting machine to Austrian high-tech textiles specialist Grabher Group at its facility in...

Swiss researchers are working on preventing pressure ulcer tissue damage in adults, which involves converting the risk factors of pressure and circulatory disorders into helpful...

Toray Industries has developed a diaper-embedded urination sensor that notifies caregivers when changes are necessary.

Researchers at the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Southern Denmark are developing an origami-style snake robot that can move on uneven terrain and...

Dynavisual has developed a patented technology to visualise data on smart textiles that allow for adaptive and interactive projections, which can be used for a...

Researchers from Drexel University’s College of Engineering are using fibre reinforcement in hopes of producing concrete structures that can repair their cracks.

Multifunctional electronic textiles (e-textiles) offer a transformative solution with added electrical, thermal and optical functionalities to interface with the human body, enabling continuous monitoring, collection...

Researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, are using nanodiamonds to create smart textiles that can cool people down faster.

After a stroke, survivors often experience uncontrollable spasms that can twist their arms and hands into perpetual fists.

Researchers at North Carolina State University have identified a “sweet spot” at which the length of a thread-like energy storage technology called a yarn-shaped supercapacitor...

A study undertaken at Nottingham Trent University, led by PhD candidate Ramona Cristina Cook, has revealed that the perceptions of millennials – people born in...

Engineers from UK universities have developed a new method of measuring temperature through the interaction of a soft and flexible “smart skin” sensor with electromagnetic...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Self-Assembly Laboratory in collaboration with Ministry of Supply have developed a 4D Knit Dress that incorporates the latest...

A smart device that claims to be the world’s first portable microwave bag, with a weight of less than 300 g, won the Best of...