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Bainisha is a Lokeren, Belgium-based start-up dedicated to developing a more accessible and accurate body motion capturing system with both sports and medical applications.

Professors Vijay Mannari and Subhas Ghosh of Eastern Michigan University have been awarded US Patent 8 764 851 for a durable, washable, antibacterial fabric created with a grant from the army.

With the future of driving increasingly depending on electronics – not to mention remote assistance from the ‘Internet of Things’ – BMW, Peiker Acustic and Nash Technologies in Germany have embarke

Science and technology development and commercialization company Allied Minds, of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, has entered into an exclusive, worldwide licensing agreement with Columbia University a

Filter media manufacturer Irema is now making its own compact fully synthetic filter systems for industrial filtration applications featuring engineered nanofibre layers.

Researchers have developed a material based on silicon nanofibres they believe can be used to boost the capacity of batteries in electric vehicles and personal electronics.

A new smart electronic vest has been developed to assist workers in lifting heavy objects and at the same time avoiding potential injury.

Belgium’s Europlasma introduced an expanded range of its Nanofics nanocoatings at the recent Filtech exhibition and conference in Cologne, Germany, on 24–26 February 2015.

Itching and redness is common for those with sensitive skin when they wear freshly laundered clothes, and is often caused by an aggressive detergent that was not completely removed by rinsing.

The Czech Republic’s Elmarco has been arguably the leading developer of commercial nanofibre technology over the past decade, most recently with its Nanospider system.

Limpets – the small aquatic snail-like creatures with conical shells that cling to rocks – have teeth with biological structures that are stronger than spider silk and could serve as inspiration fo

The winner of the ISPO Brand New Sportswear Award 2015 was Wearable Life Science (WLS), of Frankfurt, Germany, for the integrated electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) Antelope suit, which i

A system of multimodal fibres developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, USA, could deliver optical signals and drugs directly into the brain, together with providin

At the 2015 Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland on 5–15 March, Edag of Wiesbaden, Germany, introduced the striking Light Cocoon concept car, which is characterized by a number of cutting-edge

The USA’s National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research Phase I Grant for the study of the VitaSuture  Wound Management System (VWMS).