Preparing to say, “I told you so”

July 29, 2024  |  My Take

It’s interesting to me how the smart fabric segment of the advanced textiles industry has found ways to maneuver around the limitations inherent in powering smart fabric products. In essence, a battery in the form of a puck, as it’s now called, provides the power—one way or another. Workaround…
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Hiding in plain sight

June 10, 2024  |  My Take

Everything we talk about on this site has to do with textiles in some way. It’s required when you work for an organization that represents the interests of those working in the textile industry. It is not required, however, that the textiles be obvious. They just have to be … in there somewhere …
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Thermal control that’s just right

May 27, 2024  |  My Take

There’s a reason that the story of “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” has stood the test of time. Anybody, at any age, can appreciate having something just right, from a comfortable bed to a bowl of porridge.
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Still learning

April 8, 2024  |  My Take

I’m a researcher at heart. Even in college I would lose myself in the research part of a paper that was due in a couple of days. Authors will tell you that you’re likely to use about a fourth of the research you amass when you write a book. That was certainly the case with my book. There is so m…
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Liquid electronics: It’s not an oxymoron

March 25, 2024  |  My Take

The words “liquid” and “electronics” are not, in general, words you want to see together. I have pictures in my head of warnings having to do with using an electric hair dryer in the bathtub. That may get a laugh today; but who among us can explain how wearables crafted from e-textiles can b…
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Catching up to AI

February 12, 2024  |  My Take

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential influence on virtually every aspect of our lives is now upon us. Exactly what it can do is understood by relatively few. What it will do in the near future and beyond is understood on a continuum with optimists on one end and those so…
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Catching up to technology

December 11, 2023  |  My Take

The first motor vehicles hit the road in the 1880s, but according to healinglaw.com, the first laws to regulate them, enacted by Connecticut almost 20 years later in 1901, set speed limits of 12 MPH on city streets and 15 MPH on country roads. That’s it. The sum total of traffic laws for “motors…
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