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Innovative Products Based on High-Tech Textiles

DateDec, 2005
Pages19
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Abstract:
 The future of the West European textile and clothing sector lies not in constant price cutting but in more intelligent products with additional functionality.

Forschungsinstitut Hohenstein (Hohenstein Research Institute) classifies intelligent clothing into five major areas: transfer systems; adaptive systems; smart clothing; transponder systems; and microtechnology and nanotechnology.

To exploit new technologies fully, however, a multidisciplinary approach is required involving networks and a dialogue between researchers, manufacturers, applications specialists and marketing professionals.

Innovators are responding to the challenges with a plethora of develop-ments. Products include those developed for climate control such as: the vAIRis membrane jacket with integrated variable heat insulation; Gore Airvantage inflatable clothing; the Corpo Nove clothing range from Grado Zero Espace, including a jacket incorporating Aerogel and sold under the Hugo Boss label; and items containing the fluff and seed fibres from poplar trees.

“Feelgood clothing” is being made from SeaCell, derived from algae. Healthcare products include: LifeShirt; SmartShirt; and knee bandages and gloves with artificial muscles and stretch sensors. Protective clothing includes: SwissShield, containing a thin silver-plated single copper filament to protect against radiation; the ABS avalanche airbag; and D’Appolonia’s cooling jacket.

In the field of integrated textiles and electronics, products include: France Telecom’s flexible text screen for integration into clothing; Wearaphone, a hands-free telephone system which does not need ear plugs, developed by Orange in cooperation with Clothing+; Luminex, which distributes light throughout the fabric of a dress; and the Infineon jacket with an integrated MP3 player.








Table of contents:
 Summary
Introduction
Classification of intelligent textiles
Transfer systems
Adaptive systems
Smart clothing
Transponder systems
Microtechnology and nanotechnology
Product examples
Five functional areas
Climate control
vAIRis
Gore Airvantage
Corpo Nove and Aerogel
Poplar fluff
Feelgood clothing
SeaCell
Healthcare products: designed to preserve and restore health
LifeShirt
SmartShirt
Knee bandages and gloves with artificial muscles
Stretch sensors
Protective clothing
SwissShield
ABS airbag
Cooling jacket
Textiles and electronics: a new symbiosis
France Telecom
Wearaphone from Clothing+
Luminex
Infineon jacket
Conclusions

List of figures:

Figure 1: vAIRis jacket
Figure 2: Aerogel
Figure 3: Jacket made from Aerogel fabric
Figure 4: Rucksack featuring a flexible text screen
Figure 5: Products made from Luminex Fabric
Figure 6: Infineon jacket




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