Smart textiles (3): Very smart

These textiles sense, react and adapt themselves to environmental conditions or stimuli, and are the highest level of smart textiles. Surveyed here are research, development and applications relating to various garments-spacesuits, musical jackets, Smart Clothing, I-Wear, Datawear, Sports Jackets, Smart Clothes, Smart/ Intelligent Bras, S..

Trends in barriers fabrics for medical applications

Barrier garments protecting health care workers from fluids carrying blood borne diseases are crucial and the major requirements are noted. Technologies are briefly reviewed. Protection, comfort and cost are the principal demands. Several approaches are discussed increase in basic weight, more hydrophibic fibre, bondings/coatings and brea..

Nonwovens in medical textiles

The many aspects of the medical textiles market are surveyed both for suppliers and distributors. With a 5%pa global growth rate and USD7bn sales, the market is large and comprises three basic categories patient specific, general patient management and procedure specific, and these are explained. The major segments are sterilization wraps..

Wearable electronics and clothing from Philips and Levi

Wearable electronics are explained. Philips Research has, sine 1997, been looking at combining fashion and wearable electronics. The Galvactivator and the Sensor Jacket are two products. The Galvactivator registers whether the wearer is highly aroused with electrodes on a glove palm containing wiring and circuitry the wearers skin complet..

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