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Article "Discover smart clothing industry (sensors and materials) that will reach $1.8 billion by 2021"

March 3, 2015

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Published on May 5, 2015

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Flying Dresses And The Future Of Fashion

Published on Apr 4, 2014

From Lady Gaga to Azealia Banks, fashion tech lab Studio XO discuss bringing couture to life through technology, the future of digital skins and smart textiles, and bringing tech fashion to the masses.

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Smart glove drone, smart clothes by TTRI

Published on Jun 8, 2016

Taiwan Textile Research Institude (TTRI ) shows their smart glove to control a drone, smart clothes wth smart textile marterials that are washable. The smart gloves is Gypro inside, with sensors in 3 fingers to control the Parrot drone to get up, turn left/right, forward/backward, and to get down again. With 70mAh removable battery. TTRI also shows the smart T-shirt with heart rate.sensor in the back, they also show smart clothes for policeman with LED lights on the surface.

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Metcalf demo at Life and Robot exhibition

Published on Aug 3, 2016

TV personality Moe Yamaguchi tries on Metcalf, which is wearable robotic fashion made by designer Kyunkun, at the Life and Robot exhibition at Shinjuku Takashimaya Times Square department store. The event will run until Aug. 14, 2016.

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These smart threads could save lives - Science Nation

Published on Sep 19, 2016

Tease: New biomedical textiles show potential of smart, human-centered service systems

Description: Engineers are joining forces with designers, scientists and doctors at Drexel University to produce new biomedical textiles, and the resulting smart clothes are not only fashionably functional, but could also be life savers.

With support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), electrical and computer engineer Kapil Dandekar, industrial and fashion designer Genevieve Dion, and OB-GYN Owen Montgomery are incorporating RFID technology into their “belly bands” for women with high-risk pregnancies. The band continuously tracks data and alerts the doctor’s office via the Internet should the woman start contractions. A smaller version is being created for babies at risk for sleep apnea.

Developed at the intersection of engineering, medicine and design, these examples of new human-centered service technology show vast potential to improve healthcare.

NSF has invested approximately $34 million in such systems in the last three years, supporting innovative new partnership projects to create service systems that are smart and human-centric.

The research in this episode was supported by award #1430212, Wearable Smart Textiles Based on Programmable and Automated Knitting Technology for Biomedical and Sensor Actuation Applications, under the Partnerships for Innovation: Building Innovation Capacity (PFI:BIC) program.

NSF Grant URL: nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1430212

Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Marsha Walton, Science Nation Producer