The European market for smart fabrics and interactive textiles (SFIT) represents about 300 million euro today and is growing at a yearly rate of about 20%. These smart textiles are used in 'clothes ...

Google is relying on a beefy robotic arm to help it test out the reliability of the interactive fabrics it’s making as part of a skunkworks project that can bring gesture and touch recognition to ...

We've been in the midst of a massive wave of high-profile tech announcements recently — but with all the tech hub-bub going on, you may have missed the news that Google is developing a new smart ...

Project Jacquard is in development at Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects Group, ATAP. The secretive division is responsible for innovation at Google, creating prototypes of products in new ...

This interactive fabric can identify items and find lost valuables. When an object or an object's status is determined, the fabric can trigger a desired action or prompt. Researchers have designed a ...

Philips Research is currently showing off a their new Photonic Textiles at the IFA Consumer Electronics Fair in Berlin. The Photonic Fabric integrates flexible arrays of multicolored LEDs into the ...

Forward-looking: Microsoft just applied for a patent on "smart fabrics" which would move touch interaction from just the screen onto the entire device. Such a technology would have wide-ranging ...

HANOVER, N.H. - October 29, 2020 - Researchers have designed a smart fabric that can detect non-metallic objects ranging from avocadoes to credit cards, according to a study from Dartmouth College and ...