An MIT team has laid out a detailed vision for how the rapidly growing field of advanced fibers and fabrics could transform many aspects of our lives. For example, smart clothing might continuously monitor temperature, heart rate, and other vital signs, then analyze the data and give warnings of potential health conditions.

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Workshop on Interactive Textiles, Copenhagen 2006 The main issue of the workshop is to look at experience with and learn from situations of communication through what we wear and bring that to a higher or different level through the combination of computer technology and the materiality of fabric. The achievement is to develop systems of […]

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Located adjacent to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, AFFOA is a one-stop shop of sorts — a laboratory, brain trust, weaving, knitting, prototype development from fiber to end product are among the 45-person group’s capabilities.

Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman is an expert in wearable technology design, functional clothes and goods made from smart textiles. After many years of experience as an industrial and fashion designer, as well as a professor and researcher at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, she created the Interwoven Design Group. Her vast experience and knowledge have landed […]

Thermochromic dyes: Smart textiles: Heat Reactive Jacket by Stone Island, a tracksuit top which changes colour from black to green/ blue once it has reached 27 degrees. The fabric that is cotton nylon with thermosentive liquid crystals that react to heat.

Pringle of Scotland has incorporated laser-sintered nylon fabric into garments in its Autumn Winter 2014 collection, shown at London Fashion Week.

designed by fashion tech company cute circuit, the soundshirt is a haptic wearable device that allows deaf users to feel music on their skin.

Cooling sportswear provided by special technologies. Fabrics with cooling functions for summer 2020 is one topic of the last fair for functional fabrics in Munich. Cooling sportswear provide optimum support to the athlete`s performance. Learn more in my blog post >>> https://www.moject.de/en/how-your-collection-gets-cooler-news-from-performance-days/ #fabrics #textiledesign #fabricinnovation #farbictrends #activewear #performancewear #coolingfabrics #performancedays #trendforecast #s/s2020