Latest Smart Textiles News
Soft exoskeleton provides mobility for children with motor difficulties
A team of researchers in the laboratory of University of Houston Professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal has created a soft, paediatric smart exoskeleton to help children…
Deafblind people could be able to understand live conversations
Thousands of people who are born deafblind could be able to understand live conversations for the first time owing to smart textiles being developed by…
Launch of standard for wearable electronics
IPC, a US-based global association representing electronics manufacturers, has finalised a standard – IPC-8981, Quality and Reliability of E-Textile Wearables – that defines the framework…
Trial of perovskite solar cells for smart wear
Toyoda Gosei is trialling smart wear fitted with perovskite solar cells as clothing that can generate power, moving the company closer to commercialisation.
Wearable tech continuously monitors heart-rate recovery to predict risk
Scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign used a smart shirt equipped with an electrocardiogram to track participants’ heart-rate recovery after exercise and developed a…
Awards for Product Accelerator for Advanced Fabrics 2.0
Nuream and Z-Polymers have been announced as the next companies to participate in the Product Accelerator for Functional Fabrics (PAFF) 2.
AI-powered clothing logs posture and exercises
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new type of smart clothing that can track a person’s posture and exercise routine but looks, wears and…
Wearable sensors monitor biomarkers during healing
Researchers from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow, Russia, and the University of Texas at Austin, USA, have presented a proof-of-concept for…
UK/Sweden partnership to develop smart medical textiles
Sweden-based Trelleborg, a developer of engineered coated fabrics, has announced a new knowledge transfer partnership with Nottingham Trent University’s Medical Technologies Innovation Facility in Nottingham,…
Elastic inks for textile-integrated electronics
Electrically conductive prints on textiles are the basis for smart textiles – functional textiles with electronic functions.