A recent paper in Nature has demonstrated that electronic textiles can be made to detect many different types of contact in one. Researchers from China have created a new technique to spin fibres called silk fibroin-based ionic hydrogel (SIH) fibres, which electronically respond in characteristic ways when they are in […]
The 5th International Conference on the Challenges, Opportuities, Innovations and Applications of Electronic Textiles was a 3-day event held in Ghent, Belgium. Some of the highlights included a helical fibre stretch sensor, beautiful, gesture-controlled illuminated textiles from the Royal College of Art, and a research project which demonstrated that garment-embedded […]