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Solar fashion for the high street

20 March 2015

The Solar Shirt designed by Pauline Van Dongen is a very practical step in the right direction in respect of truly integrated solar garments for the mass market.

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Smart bandage detects bedsores before they are visible

18 March 2015

A team of US scientists from the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California in the USA have devised smart bandages that can detect bedsores long before they become visible.

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Tiny portfolio of big ideas

1 March 2015
At the Nano Tech 2015 exhibition and conference at the Tokyo Big Sight in Japan in January, Teijin exhibited what has grown into a significant range of new materials.
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Biosurgery with a dressing

1 March 2015
BioMonde has manufactured and supplied Larval Therapy products in Europe since 1994 and is now introducing its BioBag for patient use in the United States.
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Macronix targets wearables

1 March 2015
Macronix, a Taiwanese provider of non-volatile memory solutions, has launched a new family of wide-voltage, ultra-low-power NOR Flash memory products designed for next-generation wearable devices.
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Next generation fabric sensors

1 March 2015
New Zealand's StretchSense was the winner of the 2015 Wearable Technologies Innovation World Cup in the Sports and Fitness category.
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Wearable tech sheds its baby fat

1 March 2015
Over 500 delegates attended the Wearable Technologies Conference at the ICM Conference Centre of Munich's Messe in Germany on February 2-3 - ahead of the ISPO winter sports show from February 4-8 - an
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Active particle technology on trend

1 March 2015
Cocona, a manufacturer of active particle technologies under the brand name 37.5, based in Boulder, Colarado,had seven fabrics selected for inclusion in the Textrends 2015 forum, part of the ISPO spor
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New system for deepwater operations

1 March 2015
A cooperation between three Dutch companies for developing solutions for deepwater installations has led to the introduction of a new system capable of handling heavy loads at depths of well over thre
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Fabric that kills on contact

1 March 2015
Professors Vijay Mannari and Subhas Ghosh of Eastern Michigan University have received US patent 8,764,851 for a durable, washable, antibacterial fabric created with a grant from the army.
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Bagir offers DeoTag technology

1 March 2015
Odegon DeoTags are now included in the specification options of the Bagir Group, a multi-national group of companies involved in the design, development and manufacture of own brand and private label
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Thermal imaging for wearable augmented reality headsets

1 March 2015
Metaio, a developer of augmented reality (AR) software and solutions, has made public research and development for a never-before-seen user interface that combines thermal imaging with augmented reali
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Potential with high melt viscosity resins

1 March 2015
A series of research projects at Fibre Extrusion Technology (FET) in the UK have resulted in new processing technologies and equipment designs that enable melt spun nonwovens to be successfully produc
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Good vibrations with the new Myovolt

1 March 2015
Hong Kong-based Myovolt's technology is a targeted frequency vibration device worn by athletes to boost their muscle performance and enhance tissue recovery.
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You are what you eat

1 March 2015
BitBite, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, showcased its wearable device designed to help people lose weight and improve their eating habits at Wearable Technologies 2015.
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The force behind flex

1 March 2015
After many years of experience in the US, Flexible Circuit Technologies - the company behind many successful wearable tech products such as the Nike band - has opened its first European Sales office i
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Clothing+ retains mass market lead

1 March 2015
The lion's share of the textile-integrated sensors that are going into the chest straps, vests and bras that are currently available for sports performance monitoring and provided by major brands - in
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No-strap watch maker adds to range

1 March 2015
Munich-headquartered Mio Global, the developer of the world's first heart rate monitor watch to provide continuous, performance-accurate data without a chest strap, introduced two new models at the 20
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Winning medical system in Italy

1 March 2015
Winmedical, founded in Pisa, Italy, in 2009, has already had its WinPack wearable, modular platform for the continuous monitoring of the most important vital signs clinically validated on 4,000 patien
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Kickstarter success for connected cycling

1 March 2015
COBI - billed as the world's smartest connected cycling system - raised just over $400,000 in less than a month on Kickstarter, with almost 1,900 backers from 18 countries.
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