Archive: April 2025

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…

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…

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…

Toyoda Gosei is trialling smart wear fitted with perovskite solar cells as clothing that can generate power, moving the company closer to commercialisation.

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…

Nuream and Z-Polymers have been announced as the next companies to participate in the Product Accelerator for Functional Fabrics (PAFF) 2.

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…

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…

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,…