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Fibres of the 21st century

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products , Science , Technology by on April 09, 2007

Fibre2fashion published a huge report about fibres in the 21st century written by Prof. T.K.Sinha, Yogita Agrawal, Rupa Mohanta and Rupali Kapoor. The whole thing is really comprehensive. Here is the...

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Flex and bend

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on February 24, 2007

While thinking about the term "micro-economy" it can mean too that we repeat ancient products and ideas but are able to make it much smaller. So with this new textile. It is build like...

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Phase Change Materials

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on February 20, 2007

I found this entry about Phase Change Materials on a "Flog", a fake Weblog. However, the copy is pretty comprehensive and the topic interesting as well. Because the weblog's aim is to...

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Convergence and Hi-Tech; an interview with Mr. Strese, VDI/VDE, part I

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Science , Technology by on November 18, 2006

Part I - What drives the world? Convergence is probably the word of the century. Convergence of technologies, convergence of media etc. But what's about the structures behind these trends? What...

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The State of the Art

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products by on October 13, 2006

Some trends reported from the ISPO (huge fashion fair) and the Outdoor (huge outdoor fashion fair): Portable technology is now being developped by several brands. +++ LEVI'S has launched a line of...

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Emotional Design - the wearable social Interface

Filed in archive Cool , High-Tech Textiles , Science , Technology by on October 07, 2006

Very very cool is: Philips. Often enough I had this thought the last years but now they kick it. The company designer play around with an old idea from me: Clothes that show the emotion of the wearer....

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Hightech textiles - Network

Filed in archive Enterprises , High-Tech Textiles by on September 16, 2006

Around 800 companies from 11 countries are involved in the "Network for Textile Innovation" founded in Germany. The main aim is to restructure the traditional textile industry into 1) a...

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Modeled by: Spider

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Science , Technology by on September 08, 2006

We all know that animals (like we) are moved by bones and muscles - spiders are not. They use a hydraulic system that is much more lightweight. Scientists Carlo Menon and Cristian Lira have developed...

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Tip: Book and Exhibition

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on September 04, 2006

A designer you should look at is Hella Jongerius. She is one of the most famouse modern designer with own exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Institute of Contemporary Art in...

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The first "Shirt-Revolution"

Filed in archive Enterprises , High-Tech Textiles , Products , Technology by on August 15, 2006

This creation was "close2catch" and is a technological revolution. A shirt that measures what is available with sensors today. Because you'll have a lot of healthcare data at hand the...

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Electric textile @ IFA 2006

Filed in archive Cool , Enterprises , Events , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Products , Science , Technology by on August 12, 2006

Even at the worlds biggest consumer electronics fair in September in Berlin we will see a Wearable Fashion show named "eFashion" (I guess it will be part of the Science show. However, till...

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Become invincible with wearables

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Science by on July 21, 2006

How should I call that: High-High Tech? New research shows that you can control Solitons. The polymer chains tend to bend and twist as solitons pass through them. This has led to the possibility of...

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Textile adapts to changing temperature

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on July 17, 2006

While surfing the site of the "Bath University" the last days I found another interesting project from there: a fabric that keeps cool when it's hot and warm in winter days. Or like my...

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The future of the textile business

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles by on July 10, 2006

One direction I see are the different developments with nature fabrics and artificial fiber. The second comes here: Later this year the Elsie Whiteley mill in Halifax will house a European Centre for...

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Nano textiles

Filed in archive About , High-Tech Textiles , Market , Technology by on June 19, 2006

Nanotechnology still sounds pretty hip and "future". But companies like Nano Tex prove that it's already around us. MSNBC.com gives a short overview and talk about Sensatex too. Now,...

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Textile against skin tears

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on May 26, 2006

With age skin becomes dryer and less elastic. This can be a reason for skin tears. Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO, Australia) has come up with a new medical...

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Hightech textiles - note

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Market , Notes , Technology by on May 19, 2006

Just a note about a TV show in Europe that broadcasted an overview about hightech textiles. First of all, in future Europe can not compete in the traditional textiles business. These materials (like...

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Natural High-Tech Textile

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on April 26, 2006

Talking about high-tech textiles one would'nt think about bamboo, would you? Think different. Bamboo has some interesting features. Bamboo features natural antibacterial properties that prevent...

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IMB 2006

Filed in archive Events , High-Tech Textiles by on April 07, 2006

Just 1 month from now starts the IMB Cologne - the World Fair for Apparel Production Technology and Textile Processing from 10th to 13th May 2006. The list of product groups encompasses all sectors...

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Stretchable Silicon

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Technology by on March 10, 2006

Stretch your computer. (Yes, you can stretch the image too by clicking ;-). Wired reports about a new technology: The secret is in the silicon: the stuff electronic components are made of. Although...

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CeBIT 2006 - WarmX

Filed in archive Enterprises , High-Tech Textiles by on March 06, 2006

Trade fair check next round: how many companies show wearable computing at worlds largest IT-fair? Answer is: four. One of them is warmX with a cool (or warm) idea about tech textiles. They knit a...

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Fabric Display

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on March 02, 2006

This is one project from heXagram i didn't mentioned yesterday. I like it because it seems to be very useful in future products and the approach is wonderful too. From Joanna, the project lead:...

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Nanoarmor textile

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on December 17, 2005

We see a huge investment in new high-tech textiles all over the world. Is it for your T-shirt or a bit more special...According to IsraCast, an Israeli company has created materials made of inorganic...

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Smart Textiles

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , Science , Technology by on September 15, 2005

A short look to switzerland again, at the wearable computing lab at the ETH Zurich. In summer term 2005 they talked about textiles and electronics for example. The result is a great overview from...

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CigaretteJacket

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles by on July 02, 2005

Another interesting and stylish hightech fashion product from grado zero espace: a jacket that is made from leather and cigarette paper. So, if smoking is not good, these jackets are: "Moreover...

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HighTex and the MotoGP

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , High-Tech Textiles , Products by on June 25, 2005

Grado zero espace is an italian fashion company that works together with the European Space Agency and developed a anatomic cooling system that is also used for the MotoGP (where italians lead the...

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HighTex and the MotoGP

Filed in archive High-Tech Textiles , High-Tech Textiles , Products by on June 25, 2005

Grado zero espace is an italian fashion company that works together with the European Space Agency and developed a anatomic cooling system that is also used for the MotoGP (where italians lead the...

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