To stay warm when temperatures drop outside, we heat our indoor spaces — even when no one is in them. But scientists have now developed a novel nanowire coating for clothes that can both gen... Read more
Johns Hopkins biomedical engineering students have designed a lightweight, easy-to-conceal shirt-like garment to deliver life-saving shocks to patients experiencing serious heart problems. T... Read more
The Laundry Pod from Storebound is an easy-to-use portable washing machine that trades in cords for human energy. It requires only a few minutes of work to wash a load of laundry. The $100 e... Read more
Current clothing production is wasteful and takes up too much space. This could be a problem when it’s predicted 75% of the Earth’s population will be living in cities around 40 years from n... Read more
For many of us, mosquitoes are an irritating pest that can ruin any number of outdoor activities. For many others, however, they are also spreaders of malaria – a disease which infected appr... Read more
Represents a 20-times reduction in price and a 10-times reduction in size from that first product A new low-cost 3D full body scanner that also offers new levels of functionality is describe... Read more
Allows people to try on clothes before taking their final selection to the dressing room At CES 2012, Microsoft has been demoing a concept that they hope will one day get adopted by r... Read more
Efforts to create self-cleaning cotton fabrics are bearing fruit in China. Engineers have created a chemical coating that causes cotton materials to clean themselves of stains and rem... Read more
It is a website that uses a webcam to measure people to within a centimeter Two young Berlin entrepreneurs have an ingeniously simple idea for helping the clothing industry break through on... Read more
The next generation of communications systems could be built with a sewing machine. To make communications devices more reliable, Ohio State University researchers are finding ways to incorp... Read more
Not long ago, we reported on a prototype thin, flexible smartphone known as the Paperphone. While it isn’t actually made out of paper, the success of a research project at North Caroli... Read more