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Scientists at the University of Exeter have developed a new material which could be used in wearable electronics
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US technology developer IBM has been granted a US patent for a new smart floor system, which can detect movement
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French chemicals producer Arkema is extending its R&D collaboration with public research agency the Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), from photovoltaics (PV) to organic and hybrid electronics
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Hardware maker Adafruit has unveiled a new wearable electronics platform, which could allow for images to be displayed on clothing
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The US Army Medical Research and Material Command Office has led a research project into a wear-and-forget sensing system woven into soldier's underwear
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A cleanable, touch-sensitive smart fabric developed in Canada has attracted the interest of the automotive industry
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A new t-shirt incorporating smart fabrics which allow users to play a drum machine, has been launched into the consumer market
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A new committee to oversee educational programmes supporting the plastic electronics industry has been established
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Plans to combine the LOPE-C and Printed Electronics Europe events, initially announced back in June, have ended with their respective organisers pursuing plans for their own separate events as before
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Among other European countries the UK provides the highest levels of support for R&D and pre-commercial work into flexible and printable electronics
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A team at the University of Cagliari, Italy, has discovered a way to make conductive cotton for use in smart fabrics
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Researchers in Korea have developed a bendable digital memory that can store data without constant power, which could lead to wearable computers
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Researchers in the US have developed a process for assembling very thin silicon chips on flexible substrates, to create conformal circuits
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Proof of concept
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A new €18 million EU competition to promote commercialization of organic and large-area electronics technologies and products has opened
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Scientists in the US have started work on a new lightweight fabric that can act as a power supply for smart textiles
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In the US T-Mobile is supporting a wearable electronic, wireless sleep tracking kit based on printed electronics circuitry
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A team at the Centre for Nanotechnology at NASA Ames Research Centre has developed a new flexible memory fabric, using copper wires
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Fashion designs incorporating OLED lighting have been given a world stage after use in a recent Black Eyed Peas tour
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Research teams at North Carolina University have developed a new conductive fibre coating, which could enable wearable electronics without wires
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Researchers at Ohio State University have developed a conductive fibre that can be stitched into clothing and used as a radio antenna
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Researchers at Ohio State University are developing techniques and methods for integrating radio antennas into clothing that outperforms conventional devices, currently used by the military
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Nanomaterials are becoming synonymous with printed electronics, as new manufacturing techniques enable new commercial applications
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A smart textile dress has been unveiled by Microsoft Research
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A hybrid photovoltaic-piezoelectric device, capable of harbouring solar, wind and rain energy, has been developed at the University of Bolton
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French telecoms company Orange has developed a t-shirt that uses noise to charge mobile phones
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A new company has been established that could provide microsensors integrated into fabrics
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Students at Aalborg University in Denmark have designed a new smart fabric that can charge a multitude of electrical devices
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New sensors that are able to stretch with fabrics have been developed by researchers at the Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg
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Bedsores, or pressure ulcers, are a common occurrence in healthcare. Patients who cannot move themselves, or who spend long periods in the same position, are prone to developing these lesions
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Smart textiles are a highly innovative area of development for plastic electronics. Though wearable electronics and smart fabrics are not necessarily printed or made of polymer, they adhere to the principles of plastic electronics - flexible, versatile electronic devices that offer low-cost, added-value functionality
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Brain-computer interfaces are the latest commercial advance in wearable electronics
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Scientists at Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand have made developments that may lead to generators which can be integrated into clothing
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Pressure sensing fabrics that alert wheelchair users to posture issues have been developed by Italian textile manufacturer Inntex
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US firm Innovalley is planning to commercialise footwear that wirelessly interacts with a smartphone to direct the wearer
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Ascent Solar Technologies, a Colorado-based company, has signed an agreement with Germany's Sunload Mobile Solution, to provide flexible thin-film photovoltaics for portable solar products
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a chip that has proven its ability to power electronic devices
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UK researchers are developing wearable solar and thermoelectric clothing, which could be of interest to military services
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Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to build a semiconductor device into a fibre
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Smart textile researchers in Taiwan have created flexible electronics based on silk membranes
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Scientists working on the development of a new, more sensitive artificial skin, have developed an organic solar cell, which is stretchable, to help
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New smart textile technologies that promise to revolutionise how heart disease is treated are poised to undergo clinical studies to gather results
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Special sensory garments have been developed to support elderly wearers in their desire to live independently
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Nano-engineered conductive textiles that withstand machine washing have been developed by US researchers
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The University of Texas El Paso has received $9 million in funding to build a new printed electronics centre
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A new project from Loughborough University and Nottingham Trent University aims to create a fabric radio antenna that can be directly integrated into clothing
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Reebok is partnering with wearable electronics company mc10 to develop sportswear concepts
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Two projects to develop fabrics with integrated textiles will receive AUS$4.2 million in funding from the Australian Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research
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The 'Integrating Platform for Advanced Smart Textile Applications' (PASTA) project, announced in October, is preparing stretchable and washable modules for smart textile manufacturing
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A new UK start-up, which is commercialising a unique conductive ink created by postgraduates at London's Royal College of Art, has been awarded funding to develop its technology for printed sensors and other devices
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A device that allows Android smartphone users to monitor their health via wireless transmissions has been developed by Belgian R&D agency Imec
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Smart textile baby pyjamas will be ready to sell to customers for Q4 2011, says US developer Exmovere
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A new range of wearable electronic devices is being launched, to help developers of smart textile clothing
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Government-funded research into energy harvesting clothing will begin in the UK in October 2010
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Inkjet printing technology company Xennia has demonstrated new tools for inkjet printing on textiles, highlighting the possibility to add conductive inks to flexible substrates for printed electronics
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Smart textile developers from the Swedish Integrity project have unveiled the clothing and accessories designed to survive extreme conditions
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Earlier this month Environment Committee Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) called for a ban on nanosilver, long multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and labelling for electrical and electronic products containing nanomaterials, for example conductive inks.
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Smart textile research has created clothing to monitor the wearer's emotional state and use integrated media to comfort them, reports the BBC news website
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Smart textile technologies for survival and rescue are set to appear at a Swedish research project exhibition in June 2010
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A smart textile dress with integrated LEDs has been made available on design group 3lectromode's website
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Textronics CEO Stacey Burr talks to +Plastic Electronics magazine about taking smart fabrics from niche to global rollout, as part the latest personal coaching kit from Adidas
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+Plastic Electronics magazine will be featuring a number of speakers from the upcoming NanoMaterials 2010 event in its next issue
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A smart textile shirt developed in Spain by Nuubo will be used to monitor and locate patients recovering in hospitals and at home
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Kunigunde Cherenack, senior research fellow at the ETH Wearable Computing Lab, who is working on the TecInTex smart textile project, explains how electronic textiles are becoming truly wearable
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Developers in Europe are working on a glossary to define OLED lighting and bring clarity to an emerging industry aiming for product commercialisation
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Ambicare Health, which is developing a new wearable light plaster for treating types of skin cancer, is expanding closed market trials for its technology
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A smart textile shirt from Northeastern University that can protect baseball pitchers against injuries is being prepared for commercial use in 2010
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Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, are developing a fabric that can create electrical charge through kinetic energy generated by moving and twisting the textile
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A new accessory from New York-based smart textile fashion designer Studio 5050 aims to bring the appeal of social networking to clothing, with an LED badge
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The South Korean army will use smart textile uniforms, following funding from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy
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European technology companies and research institutes are joining forces in a new project that aims to integrate lighting into everyday surroundings and products
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Can smart textiles appeal to the mainstream?
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Smart textile technology will be used to prepare devices, vehicles and work spaces for people with disabilities and impairments. Smartex is creating technology for the Veritas project
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New York-based Studio 5050 is creating an integration kit to make the addition of electronic functionality easier for fashion designers
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A smart textile plaster that can electrically control the delivery of a drug has been developed by Cetemmsa
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Electronic textiles employing plastic electronic fibres could be used in the underwear and socks of paraplegic patients in Swiss hospitals, as part of the Nano-Tera TecInTex project
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Speakers from the likes of Philips Research, Fibretronic and Textronics will discuss the commercialisation of smart textiles and e-textile applications at Smart Fabrics 2010
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The Organic Electronic Association’s latest publication has added OLED lighting and smart textiles to its roadmap for plastic electronics developments
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1.1 billion Korean Won (€646.4million) will be invested in smart textile projects over the next 10 years in South Korea
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Hooded jumpers with integrated mp3 player or Bluetooth mobile controls will be available on college campuses across the US in September 2010
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Dan Williams, VP of product development at Konarka Technologies, US, argues that integrated electronics herald a new age of personal power
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Flexible alloy antennas have been developed that could create new possibilities for smart textiles, packaging and consumer electronics
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The European Space Agency has agreed to fund work by Ohmatex to create a sock with integrated electronics
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An EU project to develop smart textiles for heart monitoring is currently trialling materials in clinical studies
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Global printing company Xerox has created a silver ink for the printing of plastic electronics or smart textiles
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Plastic electronic technologies, including OLEDs, are being tested by major airlines for use in commercial flights
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New guidelines released on the use of RFID technology in clothing products and the supply chain
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A solar powered jacket has been made available by Italian company Ermenegildo Zegna
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Next month Scotland-based Ambicare Health will start to ship volumes of a wearable disposable LED plaster for treating skin cancer in conjunction with photodynamic drugs
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Outdoor wear company Oxbow has integrated a Bluetooth music control panel into one of its latest jackets
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A flexible speaker unveiled in Taiwan could soon be used in smart packaging and clothing
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Sensing technology could be the talk of the 2012 Olympics, following developments at Spanish research centre Cetemmsa
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Several tier one car brands in Germany are developing heated car seats based on a new printed conductive paste
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The Vodafone Spain Foundation (FVE) is one of Vodafone’s leading R&D subsidiaries and is working across several projects to develop software communication systems for the healthcare sector.
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Germany-based technology company Future-Shape is working with research institute Fraunhofer IAO to develop smart textile flooring for the hotel industry
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Joachim B Olsen is a household name in Denmark, but since winning the bronze medal for the shot put at the Athens Olympics in 2004 he has suffered consecutive joint and ligament injuries.
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You would think swimming would be the least likely sport to incorporate wearable electronics, but sensors, electrodes and displays could work under water.
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A research initiative in the US is designing fresh, original ways of using sensor and wireless communication technology for use in sports and leisure applications
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The ergonomic design properties of organic and printed electronics ensure that the automotive industry will be a significant market for these technologies in the coming years