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Clothing has a lot of potential, even outside the realm of fashion, as a team of researchers from the Polytechnic School of Montreal were all too eager to show.
We've already seen fabric transistors, which were made out of cotton, of all things.
Now we are faced with what is essentially fabric made out of batt... |
9 February 2012
10:47 GMT |
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China is the place where jaw-dropping inventions are developed. This time, the mega power that continues to impress us claims its experts have come up with a new kind of fabric that can clean itself, while exposed to sunlight.
Once fully tested and implemented, this product could be adopted by the global fashion in... |
15 December 2011
09:00 GMT |
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Stretching graphene transistors may have grabbed attention a short time ago, but the invention from Cornell University could leave even more people awed.
Cutting right to the chase, a study co-authored by Cornell fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza details how transistors can be made with natural cotton fibers.
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29 October 2011
04:50 GMT |
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Shielding a room against excessive noises is tremendously hard to do, given that the surfaces of most materials used in interior design do not absorb sound waves. Placing heavy velvet curtains all over the place is also not an option, but a new lightweight curtain material could fulfill this role. The innovation belo... |
4 May 2011
05:23 GMT |
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Waterproof clothes are very useful but the problem is that after washing them, they tend to lose their superhydrophobic properties, so a team of Chinese researchers finally developed the first waterproof fabric that maintains its properties even after 250 domestic washes at 40ºC.Researchers at the Chinese Academ... |
26 October 2010
10:35 GMT |
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Earlier this month, a new product came to media attention because it promised and boasted of the ability to revolutionize the fashion industry. Fabrican or “clothes in a can” is everything it says it is – and even more, one reviewer says. Hearing of Dr. Manel Torres’ invention and especially o... |
30 September 2010
14:31 GMT |
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Shopping for clothes is fun but making your own can be even more fun, especially if you’re spraying them on. “Clothes in a can” is precisely what Fabrican aims to make possible.The brainchild of designer Dr. Manuel Torres, the Fabrican is a spray-on fabric that is applied to the body, where it insta... |
16 September 2010
15:21 GMT |
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A new technology that could help people power MP3 players and other electronic devices through movement transformed into energy by their clothes or the carpets they walk on is being developed by scientists at the University of Southampton.This research will begin in October to be finished by 2015, and it should disco... |
16 August 2010
09:09 GMT |
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This summer, it's all about vibrant colors and bold prints that won't allow you to fade into the gray, heat-swooning background of understated, muted shades. Purple, red, green or olive - the summer of 2008 is all about these and so much more. Two types of print that should definitely find their way into yo... |
7 May 2008
03:27 GMT |
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You rather associate bamboo with exotic furniture, but the textiles of the future could be bamboo-made. A new research carried out at the Colorado State University and presented at the 235th national meeting of the American Chemical Society shows that bamboo textiles protect against harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation... |
18 April 2008
04:46 GMT |
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For over 7 centuries, the tightly woven linen strip, displaying the vague image of a bearded man, has been worshiped as the burial shroud of Jesus. Texts signal the existence of the shroud since the first century. Two decades ago, radiocarbon dating showed that the Shroud of Turin had been just a medieval hoax. It is... |
24 March 2008
05:42 GMT |
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One day, your shirt could be a power plant as well. Intelligent nanotech fabrics could harvest energy from motion to charge power portable electronics, based on the piezoelectric effect. The new material has been developed and described in the journal "Nature" by a team led by Zhong Lin Wang, at Georgia Institute of ... |
14 February 2008
03:18 GMT |
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A natural fabric is impossible to be preserved: being organic, in just a few years at most, bacteria decompose the material. In fact, all that is organic (wood, leather, paper) is out of archaeologists' reach. That's why Greek archaeologists were very surprised to discover a rare 2,700-year-old piece of f... |
10 May 2007
05:50 GMT |
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Soon, smart fabrics will tell how you cope with combat situations or sport performances. The new fabric designed by New Zealand firm Zephyr offers information on heart beat, skin temperature, posture, activity and breathing rate with the simple worn over the skin. The new fabric could allow athletes to assess their p... |
17 March 2007
09:05 GMT |
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