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Curtains that light in the dark. Clothing meeting EKG or cooling in extreme heat. Textiles with “smart” textiles to replace technical devices are the future textile products. Together with our partners we make sure to create arenas for joint efforts and development. We simplify and support companies with competence and promote innovations of future textile products.
Shimmer is a small wireless sensor platform that can record and transmit physiological and kinematic data in real-time. Designed as a wearable sensor, Shimmer incorporates wireless ECG, EMG, GSR, Accelerometer, Gyro, Mag, GPS, Tilt and Vibration sensors. Shimmer is an extremely extensible platform that enables researchers and industry to be at the leading edge of sensing technology. share share tweet share email share
Shimmer - Wireless Sensor Platform for Wearable Applications
Fibretronic Limited: The World's Leading Supplier of Wearable Electronic Products and Technology Solutions.
Fibretronic is the world's leading developer and manufacturer of wearable electronics technology. We supply textile switches, flexible keypads, iPod & iPhone controls, mobile phone interfaces, garment heating systems, fabric sensors and wearable lighting systems. All our products are designed specifically for integration in clothing and soft goods.Date: MAY 17-18 Location: Post, Rotterdam The Netherlands, The workshop is a part of DEAF festival workshop leaders: Joris van Tubergen Florian Horsch Menno Van den Berg Brian Peters David Mili John Tharakan Mika Satomi The workshop theme was to combine two different “crafting” techniques, 3D printing and Textile techniques, to come up with new [...] Using Karl Grimm’s copper thread to sew solderable circuit traces to fabric. Karl Grimm’s copper thread is very much like wire, but much more flexible and it doesn’t quite look like wire. I haven’t had much luck using it as the bobbin thread in my sewing machine, but you can sew in place using regular [...] December 13th 2011 and January 3rd 2012, 5:30-8:30pm This workshop is not open to the public, but will be held as part of One Love Generation‘s mentoring sessions in Atlanta, GA.
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Friday 6th. of January: The work by DIFFUS was presented at "Go´morgen Danmark" a morning show on channel TV2, a leading Danish broadcaster. See here . Vitamin Green provides an up-to-the-minute look at the single most important topic in contemporary design: sustainability. This new attention to the life of the things we make is changing the way design is practiced on every level and will be at thevery centre of discussions about architecture, landscape architecture, and product design in the twenty-first century. Projects nominated by an international collection of designers, curators, critics and thinkers were selected to create the best possible sourcebook of the most exciting and original green designs at all scales "..." a lively and inspiring visual definition of the term ‘sustainable design’, showing people what really can be achieved today".. "An innovative concept that pushes the boundaries of wearable technologies.
Intelligent Clothing - Wearable Electronics, Smart Clothes, Smart Fabrics, Wearable Tech
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This short film shows footage from the phototherapy workshops provided by the Look at Me! Images of Women & Ageing project and led by Rosy Martin.
Design For Ageing :: New Dynamics of Ageing
Research Papers
Who we are Nano-Tera is a Swiss federal program funding 19 four-year research projects ( RTD ), 15 focused projects ( NTF ), 6 focussed projects in conjunction with SSSTC ( SSSTC ) and 19 projects of education and dissemination ( ED ). The total consolidated budget is over CHF 120 million, of which 50% is funded by Nano-Tera and 50% participants' own contributions. Our mission
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The Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection at Philadelphia University was founded in August 2004 and is funded under a Department of Defense University Research Initiative grant. The grant has been renewed each year and the Laboratory is currently funded through August 2008. Additional funding has been appropriated in the DoD FY 2008 spending bill. Work is carried out under a contract with the Natick Soldier Center, Natick MA and modified annually to specific and jointly determined objectives each year. The Laboratory’s charter is to create garments that protect American servicemen and women against battlefield hazards and are also sufficiently comfortable to wear for periods required by the mission. This is a substantial challenge especially for the Laboratory’s principal focus to date—protection against chemical warfare agents—because increasing the protection adds to the garment’s weight and extent to which it encapsulates the body.
Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection at Philadelphia University
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Barbara Layne is the Director of Studio subTela at the Hexagram Institute where she works with a team of graduate students from Visual Arts and Engineering at Concordia University and a variety of international collaborators. The Studio is focused on the development of intelligent cloth structures for the creation of artistic, performative and functional textiles. Natural materials are woven in alongside microcomputers and sensors to create surfaces that are receptive and responsive to external stimuli. Controllable arrays of Light Emitting Diodes present changing patterns and texts through the structure of cloth. Wireless transmission systems have also been developed to support real time communication. In both wearable systems and site related installations, textiles are used to address the social dynamic of fabric and human interaction.
High-Low Tech, a research group at the MIT Media Lab , integrates high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures. Our primary aim is to engage diverse audiences in designing and building their own technologies by situating computation in new cultural and material contexts, and by developing tools that democratize engineering. We believe that the future of technology will be largely determined by end-users who will design, build, and hack their own devices, and our goal is to inspire, shape, support, and study these communities. To this end, we explore the intersection of computation, physical materials, manufacturing processes, traditional crafts, and design.
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XS Labs is a design research studio with a focus on innovation in the fields of electronic textiles and reactive garments: “second skins” that can enable computationally-mediated interactions with the environment and the individual. We are equally inspired by the technical and cultural history of how textiles have been made for generations (weaving, stitching, embroidery, knitting, beading, quilting) and by new and emerging materials with different electro-mechanical properties. This enables us to construct complex textile-based surfaces, substrates, and structures with "transitive" properties.
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Electronic textiles (e-textiles) are fabrics that have electronics and interconnections woven into them, with physical flexibility and size that cannot be achieved with existing electronic manufacturing techniques. Components and interconnections are intrinsic to the fabric and thus are less visible and not susceptible to becoming tangled together or snagged by the surroundings. An e-textile can be worn in everyday situations where currently available wearable computers would hinder the user. E-textiles can also more easily adapt to changes in the computational and sensing requirements of an application, a useful feature for power management and context awareness.