The recent patents and the new research into flexible electronic fibers could not have come at a better time either. Although the ‘smart clothing’ category is still small, analysts from ...

Here’s how it works. The future of smart clothing could turn ordinary fabric into computing gadgets. This scene shows the futuristic light suits from the 2010 film Tron Legacy.(Image credit: Disney) ...

Dan St. Louis believes the Manufacturing Solutions Center in Conover will soon play a unique role in bringing smart fibers, connected clothing and other 21st century textile products to market.

You end up lugging around a hefty circuit board, rendering the clothing impractical for daily wear.” The team’s newly developed smart fiber opens up new possibilities. Liberating fibers from chips, ...

Matteo Pasquali, the biomolecular engineer behind this smart clothing, has brought the carbon nanotube fiber back in 2013. In his lab, the researchers have explored the potential uses of this ...

We have smart cars and smart phones, why not smart clothes? They might be coming soon. Materials scientist Yoel Fink describes his work developing fibers that take photos, listen and transmit ...

An elastic fiber filled with electrodes set to revolutionize smart clothes Date: May 25, 2018 Source: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Summary: EPFL scientists have found a fast and ...

Researchers at Colorado State University are working to create natural-fiber outdoor clothing that can harness the sun's energy to charge MP3 devices, tablets, computers and cell phones.