Smart prosthetic hand knows how hard to grasp 

April 14, 2025  |  What's New?

Johns Hopkins University engineers have developed a pioneering prosthetic hand that can grip plush toys, water bottles, and other everyday objects like a human, carefully conforming and adjusting its grasp to avoid damaging or mishandling whatever it holds.
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No-touch smart fabric device is introduced

March 24, 2025  |  What's New?

Touch-sensitive clothing capable of controlling devices via touchscreen-like finger taps and swipes on the fabric is impressive, but a touchless finger-gesture-detecting fabric has now been developed that offers a new functionality.  The experimental textile is being developed by scientists from N…
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Adaptable lining makes prosthetics more comfortable 

March 24, 2025  |  What's New?

British biomedical startup Unhindr, an Imperial College London spinoff company, is developing an adaptive lining for the sockets of prosthetic limbs that responds to how the body’s soft tissue naturally shrinks and swells during the day. 
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eVent announces new high-performance weather protection 

March 10, 2025  |  What's New?

eVent® Fabrics, Leawood, Kansas, a provider of waterproof, breathable and windproof fabric laminates, introduces its newest high-performance laminate, stormburstLT. An ultralight and ultra-breathable product, it’s designed for extreme applications: stormST for outdoor and lifestyle applications; …
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Smart pajama top can detect sleep disorders

March 10, 2025  |  What's New?

A smart pajama top has been created to help detect sleep disorders and provide an alternative to visiting a sleep clinic. The garment, developed by Professor Luigi Occhipinti and colleagues at the University of Cambridge, U.K., is integrated with a series of graphene strain sensors that sense subtle…
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Medical textiles have infection protection

February 24, 2025  |  What's New?

In collaboration with the German technology group Heraeus, the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF) are developing fibers and textiles with a novel infection protection system. The basis is an antimicrobial mechanism of action licensed from Heraeus and marketed under the name AGXX.…
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LOOMIA and AFFOA collaborate on a new textile heater

February 10, 2025  |  What's New?

Brooklyn, N.Y.-based LOOMIA, provider of electronic textiles and flexible electronics, and the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA), have introduced the Gentoo Heater, which has been engineered to perform in ultra-cold environments.
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Shielding suit by Vollebak deflects radio waves

February 10, 2025  |  What's New?

Vollebak has released the Shielding Suit, a wearable technology made with pure silver that blocks radio waves so no one can track, hack, or call the users. The silver-added suit, which shares the same electromagnetic shielding technology that NASA has used for its Mars Rover, blocks electromagnetic …
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Vest designed to safeguard astronauts from radiation 

January 13, 2025  |  What's New?

The latest issue of Upward, official magazine of the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory, highlights the AstroRad vest—a pioneering wearable technology designed to safeguard astronauts from harmful solar radiation during deep-space missions. Developed through a collaboration betw…
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Manta rays inspire a fast-swimming soft robot 

January 13, 2025  |  What's New?

A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot’s movement in the water.
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