Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Smart fabrics are back in fashion

The Italian city of Prato was constructed on fabric.
There is even a there devoted museum to his history, therefore there is the not better place to weave the Italian together traditional know-how with the numerical technology and proposed the next generation of fabric, that they call "intelligent fabric".
A business called Luminex hit on the idea of weaving fiber view in fabric, therefore the person that the door can illuminate a piece really when they the enter.
Luminex Cristiano Peruzzi said: "This is a fabric contains, among the something else, fiber views, but there is also a technical side to him.
"The system consists wiring some, and the fiber view is lit by the LED of high effectiveness. The system it that supplies varies according to the function".
Luminex to shimmer the clothing include shawls to shine, just like the shirts and the pants this scintillement. But this is not just of the in the evening persons that go out in nightclub of which the stars take out the night.
Cristiano Peruzzi said: "There are applications more of the immediate, all of the clothing for the events or occasions and of the incidental special one, and also the furniture of household, the cushions etc.
"But there is also an entire range of applications that are more technical, as the services of security and urgency".
It is easy to see how this technology could save lives in a manner conceivable in the conditions where visibility is low, as in fog or the smoke.
Put the technology in the method could save also the life of industry of fabrics of Prato house grown, meeting currently the challenge of new competition of the businesses and the Chinese importations.
Interactive fabrics The Italians are not the only one a that explores the interface between fabric and the technology.
The British Eleksen of business proposed a fabric that is sensitive to touch.
Elektex consists in three put to bed fabric that allows a load to run between them when you touch them.
Eleksen the general director Robin Shephard said: "If it simply is touched, said software 'it was touched, therefore the brand that a button. If for a keyboard, do that a Q, do that a W, do that an E, when it here is touched, here, here'.
"But equally software can say 'if it is touched in [a special] the movement kind, then this is a gesture of big blow and I want you bring up the volume or I want to put you the volume'."
With the software instead of fabric itself determining that it is used for, the applications only are limited by your imagination and which goes in any probability done of money.
It can be used as a pocket of PDA, especially if you go simply prints a keyboard on the side and the faucet far.
Eleksen hopes as as a day as every jacket will come equipped with the radio and the washable checks of iPod.
So how removed we is full blown equipment that is in soft fact?
Robin Shephard said: "The method brands understand just now that the technology can be a basic party of method.
"Flexible billposting [will] becomes correct flexible billposting that you can bung in the machine to wash and it will wash them for thirty times and they will be fine. When that arrives, then we will see that a new entire wave to be technologies and capable information to be put in the clothing and clothing".
This not to be inconceivable that the technology and the gadgets that you use cannot seem to cost just, but in fact to become, the shirt of your back.

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