Startup Organic Robotics Corporation is using fibre optics, which could be woven into a garment, to measure muscle fatigue in athletes. (more…)
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Startup Organic Robotics Corporation is using fibre optics, which could be woven into a garment, to measure muscle fatigue in athletes. (more…)
CuteCircuit have released a really interesting video giving their views on innovation in fashion technology. (more…)
Siren care is a smart textile start-up founded in 2015 and based in California. It has developed a smart sock with embedded temperature sensor to help identify circulation problems in diabetics which, if left unchecked, can lead to serious complications such as amputation. (more…)
Samonsite have designed a backpack that uses the Google Jacquard capacitive sensing textile to capture gestures to control your phone without getting it out of your pocket. (more…)
A startling and dynamic dress has emerged from a joint development between Johannes Kepler University, Linz and fashiontech designer Anouk Wipprecht. (more…)
UCLA bioengineers have developed a smart glove that can identify American Sign Language hand forms and translate them to text. (more…)
Google has just released a teaser video about three future art installation that will utilise their Jacquard technology. (more…)
Adidas has just released an insole for soccer players that can measure aspects of their kicking game. Further, the technology links reality and the virtual world with players that complete certain soccer tests getting rewards they can use when playing the mobile version of FIFA. (more…)
Fashion designer Hsiao-Chuang Wen showed four coordinated garments containing subtle rippling light patterns as part of the the recent Future Chic event held in Shanghai, where the pieces won the design innovation award. (more…)