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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

The clothing is made from special fibers that can "sense pressure from the person wearing the garment," according to a blog on their website.

MIT researchers have now created clothing that uses special fibers to sense a person's movement via touch. The smart fibers can determine if the person wearing the clothing is sitting, walking, or ...

A new smart fabric converts light into heat and can raise temperatures by more than 54 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius) after just 10 minutes in the sun.

The tiny nanogenerators have diameters as small as 500 nanometers, or about 100 times thinner than a human hair and one-tenth the width of common cloth fibers. The researchers repeatedly tugged and ...

So, pressure causes the fiber colors to shift with the viewing angle, an effect that could be fascinating in a "smart cloth" made of these photonic fibers.