A cleanable, touch-sensitive smart fabric developed in Canada has attracted the interest of the automotive industry...more
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...more
Among other European countries the UK provides the highest levels of support for R&D and pre-commercial work into flexible and printable electronics...more
Researchers in the US have developed a process for assembling very thin silicon chips on flexible substrates, to create conformal circuits...more
A new €18 million EU competition to promote commercialization of organic and large-area electronics technologies and products has opened...more
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...more
Dan Williams, VP of product development at Konarka Technologies, US, argues that integrated electronics herald a new age of personal power...more
Hardware maker Adafruit has unveiled a new wearable electronics platform, which could allow for images to be displayed on clothing...more
Smart textiles recognised as fashion designs
Smart textiles: do they have mainstream appeal?
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