Say you're a professional bomb defuser, like the soldiers in the Oscar-nominated film The Hurt Locker — and the bomb you're working on suddenly goes off. Do you just kiss your adrenaline-addicted ass goodbye? Read more...
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Real-life Hurt Locker: how bomb-proof suits work
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Smart Fatigues Hear Enemy Coming
Call it a security blanket for soldiers: GIs may someday march into battle armed with a swatch of fabric rather than bulky electronics. Read more...
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To Charge your iPod, Plug in Your Jeans
A breakthrough in wearable computing lets researchers change ordinary cotton and polyester into electronic textiles that can double as rechargeable batteries. Read more...
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Philips Electronics' MyHeart garment has sensors and electronics that monitor vital body signs
Philips Electronics' MyHeart garment monitors vital signs. Networked sensors mounted on or implanted in a living being collect data from the body, the surrounding environment or both and then send it wirelessly to other devices for processing. This Wide Angle looks at how these sensors, electronic textiles and small electronic devices are being harnessed to improve health and safety and enhance our entertainment experiences. Read more...
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Brink: Solar Textiles
What you know about solar cells is about to change with the emergence of flexible solar cells. Watch online...
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Smart Fiber Takes Photos, Could Crunch Numbers Later
By implanting light-sensitive, semiconducting materials into a single synthetic fiber, and then weaving that fiber into nearly one square foot of fabric, MIT scientists have created a flexible camera that has taken a picture of a smiley face. Read more...
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Textiles... The Next Generation- Smart and Technical Textiles -
"In tomorrow's world, textiles will be performing tasks that today are far beyond most peoples' wildest dreams." Purchase the DVD about smart textiles. Watch a preview online...
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Jacket Lets You Feel the Movies
Researchers from Philips Electronics will announce plans this week for a jacket they have lined with vibration motors to study the effects of touch on a movie viewer's emotional response to what the characters are experiencing. Read more...
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New Exoskeleton Gives Soldiers Super Strength
Stronger, faster and harder is the promise of a new exoskeleton developed by Lockheed Martin for U.S. soldiers. Dubbed the Human Universal Load Carrier, or HULC, the device helps a soldier carry up to 200 pounds at a top speed of 10 mph. Read more...
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IFAI member companies contribute specialty fabrics and fibers to the aerospace industry
Kuraray company's airbags made with Vectran™ fiber successfully cushioned the Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, and Opportunity landings on the surface of Mars. This high-strength fiber is a multifilament polyester-polyarylate yarn spun from liquid crystal polymer (LCP). It offers exceptional flex fatigue resistance, providing superior load-handling characteristics for tow ropes, cargo tie-downs and inflatables. Materials like Vectran™ are used commercially for many projects. Consider submitting one to NASA spinoffs at www.sti.nasa.gov.
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Tensile Fabrics Enhance Architecture Around the World
On a Friday night in March 2008, fans at a college basketball game at Atlanta’s Georgia Dome noticed the stadium’s scoreboard begin to sway. Read more...
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Ways to Wear Bio-Sensor Networks
We're rapidly heading toward a future in which computers are pervasive -- and maybe even invasive. We already have computers in our houses, offices and cars, radio frequency identification tags on packaging and GPS in our cell phones and cars. Read more...
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Hack-Proofing Body Sensor Networks
Here in the United States, solutions for curtailing the rising cost of healthcare as well as solutions for providing universal healthcare are being hotly debated. Read more...
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Football Helmets Detect Concussions
A new padding design in football helmets doesn't just protect players' heads better, it can prevent serious injury. Watch online...
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Polymer Fabric Protects Firefighters, Military, and Civilians
Insulating and protecting astronauts from temperature extremes, from the 3 K (-455 °F) of deep space to the 1,533 K (2,300 °F) of atmospheric reentry, is central to NASA’s human space flight program. Read more...
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