Electronic textiles

IPC—Association Connecting Electronics Industries is to host an open-invitation web meeting for European organizations involved in electronic textiles technologies to generate additional interest i

Clothing and textile items with integrated radio-frequency (RF) shielding materials have been developed by inventors from Quebec, Canada.

Researchers in the USA are working on the development of cost-effective sensor-laden textiles to monitor the structural health and integrity of buildings.

A technology based on laminating ultrathin layers of gold into outdoor sports jackets has been designed to actively transport moisture away from the bodies of their wearers and to the outside.

BeBop Sensors of Berkeley, California, USA, will launch the Forte Data Glove at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, in 9–12 January 2018.

Ultra-thin, ceramic impregnated separators for lithium-ion batteries, gas diffusion layers for fuel cells and high-performance electrodes for redox flow batteries are all part of the Freudenberg Pe

Researchers at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, have created a “spray-on” digital memory device using only an aerosol jet printer and nanoparticle inks.

Swiss companies Schoeller Textil AG of Sevelen Eschler Textil GmbH, of Bühler are working closely with partners from the garment and medical sectors, and with electronics companies and research ins

At the INDEX 17 in Geneva, Switzerland, on 4–7 April, Glatfelter and Dreamweaver International received an Innovation Award for best finished product for their Gold 20 lithium–ion

Researchers at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in Raleigh, USA, have created elastic, touch-sensitive fibres that can be employed as an interface with electronic devices. 

Details of a project  to develop nonwoven-based printed circuit boards (PCBs) and actuators were shared by Norafin’s Head of Research and Development (R&D) Marc Jolly at the Nonwovens for H

Gloves featuring embedded sensors are being developed by researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the UK to help protect construction workers from occupational injuries.

Kansai University and Tokyo-headquartered Teijin have developed wearable sensors in the shapes of traditional Japanese braided cords, known as kumihimo, using polylactic-acid (PLA) piezoelectric fi

At February’s ISPO in Munich, Germany, Schoeller Textil AG, based in Sevelen, Switzerland presented a durable, heatable e-soft-shell material that can be flexibly cut to size.

In a significant development for the smart textiles sector, Polar Electro of Kempele, Switzerland, is introducing the Team Pro Shirt as part of its tracking and monitoring system for professional a

Electronic textiles (E-textiles) specialist Intelligent Textiles Ltd (ITL) has been working with BAE Systems on the development of an alternative to the heavy portable data and power supplies curre

A report from IDTechEx Research predicts that electronic textiles (e-textiles) are on the cusp of rapid growth and that the market will increase from a value of under US$150 million in 2016 to over

Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) in Columbus, USA, report they are now able to embroider circuits into fabrics with 0.1mm precision—the perfect size for integrating electronic components

Ohmatex is hoping to change the consumer’s perception of a cable with its soft and tangle-free Micro USB CableGrace—which it claims to be the world’s thinnest micro universal serial bus (USB) cable

While the majority of wearable technology products sold today still fit with the ‘components-in-a-box' design, 2015 was a record year for investment in smart clothing and e-textile products, report

In June 2015, Jabil Circuit of St Petersburg, Florida, USA, quietly acquired Clothing+, a small company based in Kankaanpää, Finland, that has achieved more success than perhaps any other in the de

Graphene-coated fabrics that can detect dangerous gases present in the air and alert their wearer by turning on a light-emitting diode (LED) have been developed by scientists in South Korea.

New Zealand-based start-up StrechSense has applied for a Patent to protect an energy-harvesting fabric sensor.

Messe Frankfurt France held Avantex 2015 at Paris Le Bourget in France on 14–17 September 2015.

Since it launched its potentially revolutionary fabric sensor technology at the end of 2014, BeBop Sensors, based in Berkeley, California, USA, has designed 14 separate products for original equipm

Electrically conducting fibres that can be stretched reversibly to over 14 times their initial length have been developed by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) Dallas NanoTech Institute in

Are Google and Levi Strauss planning to bring interactive fabrics to the mass-market?

UK-headquartered industrial thread and consumer textile crafts business Coats Group plc has developed a metallized thread antenna specifically for use with a radio-frequency identification (RFID) t

In a cooperation between TITV Greiz, the German research institute, and textile machinery manufacturer Jakob Müller AG, based in Frick, Switzerland, a process has been developed for integrating lig

Bomedus, a start-up company based in Bonn, Germany, has taken its electronic textile-based belt for treating chronic pain from a research idea to a commercial product in just three years.

Current smart garments are little more than clothing acting as a support for a conventional electronic sensor according to Duncan Smith of Cambridge Consultants.

The latest developments in electronic textiles will be presented by Forster Rohner Textile Innovations and its partners from various market fields at the Techtextil trade fair on 4–7 May 2

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

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

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.