This page contains web links to media reports of innovations affecting clothing and textiles. There is no attempt to be comprehensive in coverage. The intention is to provide a stimulas to creative thinking.
Butterfly
wings and shimmering clothing (New Scientist, 26
June 1999)
Clothing microclimate comfort
(Toyobo)
Camouflage
effective against thermal imaging (New Scientist, 6
December 1997)
Frog
man - amphibious clothing (Duncan Graham-Rowe, New
Scientist, 28 March 01)
High
performance wool breaking new ground (Textile Institute
International Review 2000), c.f. (SportwoolTM)
Men's
suits get M&S makeover (just-style, 12 February
2001)
How
computerised clothing will work (Kevin Bonsor, How Stuff
Works, accessed 2001)
Shirt
rolls up its own sleeves (Paul Marks, New Scientist,
25 July 01)
Smart Clothing and Textiles
Cheap,
plastic solar cells may be on the horizon (Press Release, 28
March 2002)
The
Electric Boots of Dr Gilbert (Hull University news,
June 2000)
Electronic Bra Detects Breast Cancer (just-style.com, 24 May 2002)
France Telecom R&D (Links
to electronic textiles research)
Gorix (Electro-conductive
textiles)
Inflatable Lycra Suit For OAPs Unveiled (just-style.com, 24 May
2002)
LCD
paint licked (Nature Science Update, 2 May 2002 -
LCDs on a polymer base)
LCDs paint a
bright future (Physics Web, 1 May 2002)
Levi's ICD+
range
SoftSwitch home
page
TV on a
T-Shirt (Nature Science Updates, 23 May 2002)
Wearable
multimedia (New Scientist, 10 July 1999)
Quickwalker
Boots (New Scientist, 15 July 2000)
Inventor
Creates Odour Free Socks (just-style, 16 Oct 2000)
Bedding
that is lethal to the house dust mite (New Scientist,
19 September 1998)
Blue
jeans become green jeans (New Scientist, 4 July
2001, organic dyes: the Spindigo project)
Hot sequence shuffle (Nature
Science Updates, 3 May 2000, Biotechnology: engineering heat
resistant enzymes)
"Hot
water suits" for divers (New Scientist, 26 June
1999)
Paint
your wagon like a beetle (Irridescent dyes: Daily
Telegraph, 1 February 2001)
Spinning a good yarn (Nature
Science Updates, 18 February 2000, some thoughts on spider
silk spinning)
Web of intrigue (Nature
Science Updates, 29 March 2001, spider silk as an
eco-friendly superfibre)
Tog
value of duvets and British Standard (BS5335, 1984) (New
Scientist, 11 May 1996)
Technical Textiles
Biosteel:
a green alternative to high-strength plastics? (New
Scientist, 10 October 1998)
GM
goat spins web based future (Biosteel report by BBC News,
21 August, 2000)
Carbon
fibre beams for construction (New Scientist, 8
August 1998)
Photonic fibres weave smart fabrics (Physics World, 18 April 2002)
Superballoon
fabrics for NASA's Ultra-Long Duration Balloon (ULDB) project
(New Scientist, 5 December 1998)
Super-strong
threads (New Scientist, 17 November 2000, based on
carbon fibres)
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| Tough glass-coated polymer fibres that can be woven into fabrics. Developed by Shandon Hart of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US and colleagues, the fibres reflect more light at certain wavelengths than the best metallic reflectors. See "Photonic fibres weave smart fabrics". |
See also:
Technical
Textiles Index. Based on the most recent articles that have
appeared in Technical Textiles International, High
Performance Textiles and Medical Textiles, the
index gives an overview of developments in the use of textile
materials for engineering, safety, agricultural, medical and
other specialised applications.
Laundering
Bacteria
could create self-cleaning clothes (Eugenie Samuel, New
Scientist, 5 July 01, encouraging friendly bacteria))
How dry
cleaning works (Nate Marks & Debra Luhring, How Stuff
Works, accessed 2001)
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