#Google working with Levis on smart clothes GOOGLE says it working with iconic US jean maker Levi strauss to make clothing from specially woven fabric with touch-screen control capabilities.
which is different from the Google (x) lab that develops big-vision innovations such as self-driving cars. e are enabling interactive textiles,
Emre Karagozler of ATAP said as the smart fabric was shown off in an area set up to look like cloth coming out of a loom. e do it by weaving conductive threads into fabric.
The special threads can be woven into a wide array of fabrics, and be made to visually stand out
Conductivity can be limited to desired parts of fabric or spread across entire cloth. t is stretchable;
it is said washable, Karagozler as people controlled lights or computer screens with finger strokes on a blue cloth covering a table in the display area behind him. t is just like normal fabric.
Project Jacquard makes it possible to weave touch and gesture interactivity into any textile using standard, industrial looms, according to Google.
Anything involving fabric, from suits or dresses to furniture or carpet, could potentially have computer touchpad style control capabilities woven.
Conductive yarn is connected to tiny circuits, no bigger than jacket buttons, with miniaturised electronics that can use algorithms to recognise touches or swipes,
which is an ultra-fast interrogator that simultaneously measures 13 optical fibers, each with up to approximately 80 sensing points.
"Potential applications range from sensors integrated with packaging, to textiles that convert body heat to electricity,
#Super-Thin Electronic textile Could Dress You In Video Researchers created a 1mm sized"Afghan Girl"image
Most immediately, the film could be used in clothes and outdoor furniture, both of which can be damaged by too much sun exposure.
Before Google Project Jacquard, there was Byborre wifi-enabled pillow to combine technology, textile and shape.
The long pillow, outfitted with conducting yarns and copper wire on either end, enables two people to communicate through vibration.
Two years later, the company is continuing to repurpose fabric to offer solutions in health, tech and even citywide pollution.
The adoption of the suit will rely on the future evolution of a new industry that bridges technology and textiles,
A quality microfiber cloth and storage pouch are provided with each pair to keep the glasses clean and safe d
The bikini bottom has a section where a UV sensor clips on to the fabric.
and might also be used for the flexible coating of clothes and deformable components. Metal-organic frameworks, briefly called MOFS, consist of two basic elements, metal node points and organic molecules,
What Your Clothes May Literally Say About You In the future Wearing a computer on your sleeve may be a lot cooler than a plastic watch with an Apple logo on it-researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have designed a responsive hybrid material fueled by an oscillatory chemical reactions.
The material system is sufficiently small and flexible enough to be integrated into fabric or introduced as an inset into a shoe.
and made of very soft and flexible silk, the brain tissue is able to comfortably rearrange itself around it."
Nanowire and contact formed at the same time Nanowires are extremely thin nanocrystal threads used in the development of new electronic components
But scientists have developed now a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both generate heat
and trap the heat from our bodies better than regular clothes. They report on their technology,
breathable mesh materials that are flexible enough to coat normal clothes. When compared to regular clothing material,
the special nanowire cloth trapped body heat far more effectively. Because the coatings are made out of conductive materials,
The researchers calculated that their thermal textiles could save about 1 000 kilowatt hours per person every year--that's about how much electricity an average U s. home consumes in one month h
"With endovascular procedures, we use cloth-covered wire mesh tubes called endografts to replace the aorta from within,
The study,"A dendrite-suppressing solid ion conductor from aramid nanofibers, "will appear online Jan 27 in Nature Communications.
and be used for smart clothing such as cloaking suits and dynamic illuminated clothing.""The cloaking suit could be used to blend into a variety of environments,
as well as miniature NS honeycomb cells, from nylon using selective laser sintering for experimentation. NS honeycombs can be made from a variety of materials to suit distinct applications.
such as the production of food, textiles, detergents, pharmaceuticals and other chemicals where environmentally friendly methods are of ever increasing importance."
#Inkjet inks made of silk could yield smart bandages, bacteria-sensing gloves and more Inkjet printing is one of the most immediate and accessible forms of printing technology currently available, according to the researchers,
Enter purified silk protein, or fibroin, which offers intrinsic strength and protective properties that make it well-suited for a range of biomedical and optoelectronic applications.
if we were able to develop an inkjet-printable silk solution, we would have a universal building block to generate multiple functional printed formats that could lead to a wide variety of applications in which inks remain active over time,
functional silk inks doped with a variety of components: The researchers, who included collaborators from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, foresee wide potential for future investigation and application of this technology.
Omenetto and Kaplan are pioneers in the use of silk as an alternative to plastics. Omenetto's 2011 TED Talk called silk a"new old material"that could have a profound impact in many technical fields.
This work was supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (N14-13-1-0596) and the AFOSR (FA9550-14-1-0015
#What your clothes may literally say about you Moving closer to the possibility of"materials that compute
The material system is sufficiently small and flexible that it could ultimately be integrated into a fabric
In addition, PLA is biocompatible and thus suitable for medical use, for instance in absorbable suture threads.
The Harvard team solved these problems by using a mesh of conductive polymer threads with either nanoscale electrodes
Each strand is as soft as silk and as flexible as brain tissue itself. Free space makes up 95%of the mesh
Called"prior appropriation,"this remains the dominant thread in Western water issues, more than 100 years later.
In addition to those crops, cotton is one of the thirstiest crops a farmer can grow, especially in a desert.
Though cotton production has dropped steeply in California since 1995, California farmers have gotten $3 billion in federal subsidies to grow it.
The mesh is malleable,"soft as silk, "and spacious, allowing it to naturally incorporate into the brain
I and Phase II) to test a novel low-cost, high-performance fabric suitable for the BAT shell,
#Vehicle body made from cotton hemp and wood Carbon and glass fibers reinforce synthetics so that they can be used for vehicle body construction.
But in this regard there is an abundance of potential found in natural fibers obtained from hemp cotton or wood.
If you combined bio-based textile and carbon fibers you can obtain extremely light yet very sturdy components. ightweightis an important buzzword in automotive engineering and just as important in the aerospace sector too.
Variants derived from hemp flax cotton and wood are about as affordable as glass fibers and moreover have a lower density than the pendants made of glass or carbon.
The fibers typically exist as fabrics that are placed on each other accordingly and are embedded by the plastic matrix. e use carbon fibers in those areas where the part undergoes intense mechanical stress;
and can be processed as well as possible into fabrics this is also referred to as izing the surface of the fiber
and uses it to push the rings together. he tiny molecular machine threads the rings around a nanoscopic chain a sort of axle and squeezes the rings together,
While the tubing of the prototype, is made from clear acrylic, they will be manufactured from polymer-lined 5 mm-thick carbon fibre in the finished model.
and therefore distance at which optical signals can be sent through optical fibers. This advance has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable wireless and landline networks.
#What your clothes may say about you Moving closer to the possibility of aterials that computeand wearing your computer on your sleeve,
The material system is sufficiently small and flexible that it could ultimately be integrated into a fabric
which, like the thread on the bobbin, wound double helix of DNA, which is coiled into two supercoiled loops.
professorr Vasily M. Studitsky and his colleagues found that the thread can be repaired without complete unwinding of DNA oils The highly conserved histones play an important role in this process as changes in their structure are rejected by natural selection.
#Nanotech transforms cotton fibers into modern marvel Marcia Silva da Pinto, postdoctoral researcher, works on growing metal organic frameworks onto cotton samples to create a filtration system capable of capturing toxic gas,
as Juan Hinestroza looks on. Juan Hinestroza and his students live in a cotton-soft nano world,
where they create clothing that kills bacteria, conducts electricity, wards off malaria, captures harmful gas and weaves transistors into shirts and dresses. otton is one of the most fascinating and misunderstood materials,
who directs the Textiles Nanotechnology Laboratory at Cornell. n a nanoscale world and that is our world we can control cellulose-based materials one atom at a time. he Hinestroza group has turned cotton fibers into electronic components such as transistors and thermistors,
so instead of adding electronics to fabrics, he converts the fabric into an electronic component. reating transistors
and other components using cotton fibers brings a new perspective to the seamless integration of electronics
and textiles, enabling the creation of unique wearable electronic devices, Hinestroza said. Taking advantage of cotton irregular topography, Hinestroza and his students added conformal coatings of gold nanoparticles,
as well as semiconductive and conductive polymers to tailor the behavior of natural cotton fibers. he layers were so thin that the flexibility of the cotton fibers is preserved always,
Hinestroza said, ibers are everywhere from your underwear, pajamas, toothbrushes, tires, shoes, car seats, air filtration systems and even your clothes. bbey Liebman 0 created a dress using conductive cotton threads capable of charging an iphone.
With ultrathin solar panels for trim and a USB charger tucked into the waist, the Southwest-inspired garment captured enough sunshine to charge cell phones
and other handheld devices allowing the wearer to stay plugged in. The technology may be embedded into shirts to measure heart rate
or analyze sweat, sewn into pillows to monitor brain signals or applied to interactive textiles with heating and cooling capabilities. revious technologies have achieved similar functionalities,
but those fibers became rigid or heavy, unlike our yarns, which are friendly to further processing, such as weaving, sewing and knitting,
Hinestroza said. Synthesizing nanoparticles and attaching them to cotton not only creates color on fiber surfaces without the use of dyes,
but the new surfaces can efficiently kill 99.9 percent of bacteria, which could help in warding colds, flu and other diseases.
Two of Hinestroza students created a hooded bodysuit embedded with insecticides using metal organic framework molecules,
Hinestroza always looks for new ways to employ cotton as a canvas for creating infinite modern uses. e want to transform traditional natural fibers into true engineering materials that are multifunctional
and plied together like yarn or rope, she said. his technology could be well-suited for rapid commercialization,
and be used for smart clothing such as cloaking suits and dynamic illuminated clothing, said Aaron Fishman, one of the leaders of the project and a visiting professor at the department. he cloaking suit could be used to blend into a variety of environments,
Needlescopic surgery, also known as mico-laproscopy, uses instruments about the size of a sewing needle inserted through incisions that are typically 5-10mm long.
ntil now we thought that spider silk was the strongest biological material because of its super-strength
-or trade in textiles, clothing, iron and steel combined.""""Eliminating tariffs on trade of this magnitude will have a huge impact.
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