Archive: December 2020

Facemask

Face mask 2.0 for viral communication

Donut Robotics – a Japanese venture founded in 2014 out of a garage in Fukuoka – has been inundated with enquiries from international marketing companies in the past few...

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Capacativo

Smart fabric senses through ‘implicit input’

Capacativo is a Microsoft smart fabric that can detect different non-metallic objects ranging from avocados to credit cards.

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Smart options with MDW technology

Swiss textile machinery builder Jakob Müller has woven a textile calculator to demonstrate the capabilities of its new MDW technology.

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Bath

Promising route to piezoelectric nylon fibres

A new method for producing nylon fibres that are smart enough to produce electricity from simple body movement has been developed in a collaboration between the UK’s...

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Hardvard sensor

Strength and sensitivity in carbon fibre sensor

An ultra-sensitive strain sensor that is at the same time extremely resilient can be embedded into textiles and soft robotic systems.

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Pixabay

Liquid crystals spun into colour-changing fibres

Electrospinning processes for the production of thermochromic fibres from liquid crystals, which change colour in response to changes in temperature, are being developed by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth...

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