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April 20, 2024

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Machine Learning Used to Create a Fabric-Based Touch Sensor

Apr. 17, 2024 — A new fabric-based touch sensor used machine learning to control mobile apps, video games and other devices while integrated into ...

Scientists Develop Ultra-Thin Semiconductor Fibers That Turn Fabrics Into Wearable Electronics

Mar. 13, 2024 — Scientists have developed ultra-thin semiconductor fibers that can be woven into fabrics, turning them into smart wearable ...

Sweat-Resistant Wearable Robot Sensor

Jan. 30, 2024 — A joint research team has developed a stretchable and adhesive microneedle sensor that can be attached to the skin and stably measure high-quality electrophysiological signals for a long period of ...

New Conductive, Cotton-Based Fiber Developed for Smart Textiles

Dec. 11, 2023 — A single strand of newly developed fiber has the flexibility of cotton and the electric conductivity of the polymer, polyaniline. The new material has shown good potential for wearable e-textiles. The researchers tested the fibers with a system that ...

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Super Permeable Wearable Electronics Developed for Stable, Long-Term Biosignal Monitoring

Mar. 27, 2024 — Super wearable electronics that are lightweight, stretchable and increase sweat permeability by 400-fold have been developed by scientists, enabling ...

'Smart Glove' Can Boost Hand Mobility of Stroke Patients

Jan. 16, 2024 — This month, a group of stroke survivors in British Columbia will test a new technology designed to aid their recovery, and ultimately restore use of their limbs and hands. Participants will wear a ...

Scientists Have Come Up With a Technology to Recycle Used Clothes Rather Than Simply Burning Them

Jan. 13, 2024 — Clothes and other textiles are among the materials that we are the worst at recycling. But this may change. Researchers have developed a new ...

A Lightweight Wearable Device Helps Users Navigate With a Tap on the Wrist

Aug. 29, 2023 — Scientists have developed a fabric-based wearable device that 'taps' a user's wrist with pressurized air, silently helping them navigate to their destination. The study demonstrated that users ...

Sweat It Out: Novel Wearable Biosensor for Monitoring Sweat Electrolytes for Use in Healthcare and Sports

July 6, 2023 — Wearable sensors are becoming a promising tool in personalized healthcare and exercise monitoring. In a recent study, researchers develop a novel ...

Fiber Optic Smart Pants Offer a Low-Cost Way to Monitor Movements

June 28, 2023 — New research describes a fiber optic smart pant that can monitor movement and health. The pants can be used to detect activities such as sitting, squatting, walking or kicking without inhibiting ...

Stretchable Knee Wearable Offers Insight Into Improving E-Textiles for Healthcare

May 25, 2023 — Researchers developed a fully knitted, circuit-embedded knee wearable for wireless sensing of joint motion in real-time. Compared to other knitted ...

A Giant Leap Forward in Wireless Ultrasound Monitoring for Subjects in Motion

May 22, 2023 — Engineers have developed the first fully integrated wearable ultrasound system for deep-tissue monitoring, including for subjects on the ...

Breakthrough for Sweat: Health Monitoring Device

May 3, 2023 — Sweat is more than just a sign of a good workout. It holds vital information about our health, providing clues to dehydration, fatigue, blood sugar levels and even serious conditions such as cystic ...

A Touch-Responsive Fabric Armband -- For Flexible Keyboards, Wearable Sketchpads

May 2, 2023 — It's time to roll up your sleeves for the next advance in wearable technology -- a fabric armband that's actually a touch pad. Researchers say they ...

Bendable Energy Storage Materials by Cool Science

Mar. 19, 2024 — Imaging being able to wear clothes that charge your gadgets just by wearing them. New research has brought us a step closer to achieving this ...

New Programmable Smart Fabric Responds to Temperature and Electricity

Apr. 24, 2023 — A new smart material is activated by both heat and electricity, making it the first ever to respond to two different ...

Cheaper Method for Making Woven Displays and Smart Fabrics -- Of Any Size or Shape

Apr. 21, 2023 — Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles -- incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage -- that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the same ...

Stab-Resistant Fabric Gains Strength from Carbon Nanotubes, Polyacrylate

Apr. 19, 2023 — Fabrics that resist knife cuts can help prevent injuries and save lives. But a sharp enough knife or a very forceful jab can get through some of these materials. Now, researchers report that carbon ...

Thread-Like Pumps Can Be Woven Into Clothes

Mar. 30, 2023 — Researchers have developed fiber-like pumps that allow high-pressure fluidic circuits to be woven into textiles without an external pump. Soft supportive exoskeletons, thermoregulatory clothing, and ...

Wearable Health Sensor for Monitoring Muscle Atrophy

Mar. 17, 2023 — Researchers have fabricated the first wearable sensor designed to detect and monitor muscle ...

Electronic Skin as Flexible as Crocodile Skin

Mar. 16, 2023 — A research team has developed a crocodile-skin-inspired omnidirectionally stretchable pressure ...

Reactive Fabrics Respond to Changes in Temperature

Feb. 21, 2023 — New textiles change shape when they heat up, giving designers a wide range of new options. In addition to offering adjustable aesthetics, responsive smart fabrics could also help monitor people’s ...

Under Pressure: Breakthrough New Material Solves Problem of Wearable Sensors

Jan. 30, 2023 — Researchers have synthesized a new material that solves one of the most difficult problems in the quest to create wearable, unobtrusive sensitive sensors: the problem of ...

Powering Wearable Technology With MXene Textile Supercapacitor 'Patch'

Jan. 30, 2023 — Researchers are one step closer to making wearable textile technology a reality. Materials scientists have reported a new design of a flexible wearable supercapacitor patch. It uses MXene to create a ...

Hand Washing Fabrics Reduces Microplastic Release Compared With Machine Washing

Jan. 12, 2023 — From tiny plankton to massive whales, microplastics have been found throughout the ocean food chain. One major source of this pollution are fibers shed while laundering synthetic fabrics. Although ...

Screen-Printing Method Can Make Wearable Electronics Less Expensive

Jan. 12, 2023 — A new study demonstrates that electrodes can be made using just screen printing, creating a stretchable, durable circuit pattern that can be transferred to fabric and worn directly on human skin. ...

Researchers Demonstrate New Sensors by Creating Novel Health Monitoring, Machine Interface Devices

Jan. 3, 2023 — Researchers have developed a stretchable strain sensor that has an unprecedented combination of sensitivity and range, allowing it to detect even minor changes in strain with greater range of motion ...

Researchers Eye Embroidery as Low-Cost Solution for Making Wearable Electronics

Nov. 22, 2022 — Researchers tested embroidery as a low-cost technique for making power-generating ...

Engineers Weave Advanced Fabric That Can Cool a Wearer Down and Warm Them Up

Oct. 11, 2022 — Textile engineers have developed a fabric woven out of ultra-fine nano-threads made in part of phase-change materials and other advanced substances that combine to produce a fabric that can respond ...

Wearable Sensors Styled Into T-Shirts and Face Masks

Sep. 23, 2022 — Researchers have embedded new low-cost sensors that monitor breathing, heart rate, and ammonia into T-shirts and face ...

Personal Health Trackers May Include Smart Face Mask, Other Wearables

June 23, 2022 — New research demonstrates different ways to improve wearable bioelectronic devices and materials to provide better real-time monitoring of a person's health, including vital ...

Design Tweak Helps Prevent Malfunction in Yarns Designed to Store Energy

Mar. 22, 2022 — Findings in a recent study could advance the development of 'smart textiles' that would capture energy from the wearer's ...

New Acoustic Fabric Converts Audible Sounds Into Electrical Signals

Mar. 16, 2022 — Researchers have developed a new acoustic fabric converts audible sounds into electrical signals. They designed a fabric that works like a microphone, converting sound first into mechanical ...

Cloth Masks Inferior for Protection Against Airborne Viral Spread

Mar. 1, 2022 — A new study examines the efficacy of particle filtration by woven fabric, which consists of fibers twisted together into yarns. There are, therefore, two lengthscales: the diameters of the fiber and ...