The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has developed soft magnetorheological textiles that could be widely applicable ...

HAINING, ZHEJIANG, CHINA, January 14, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Global demand for functional textiles is surging, ...

Apple has presented the patents in the past, including ones for making fabric buttons that are meant to be stitched to HomePods. A new patent shows several uses for smart fabric that has sensors and ...

The annual Smart Fabrics Summit was held again this year at the Wilson College of Textiles of North Carolina State University, sponsored by the Advanced Textiles Association (ATA, formerly the ...

Smart fabrics can be manufactured from a wide range of materials and aim to provide added value with regards to safety, comfort or performance, especially enhancing athletic performance. Smart fabrics ...

Aesthetic- or performance-enhancing, smart fabrics or e-textiles provide added value to the wearer, such as changing colors, lighting up, or improving performance in athletics or in military ...

video: Researchers have developed next-generation smart textiles – incorporating LEDs, sensors, energy harvesting, and storage – that can be produced inexpensively, in any shape or size, using the ...

Scientists have built next-generation smart textiles that include LEDs, energy harvesting, sensors, and storage and can be made cheaply, in any form or size, using the same machines that make the ...

In your day-to-day life, you probably don’t have to dodge and deflect arrows too often. (Unless you’re some kind of medieval YouTuber.) But that doesn’t mean we should give up on the notion of ...