Lamp changes brightness by pressing its stretchable textile

September 22nd, 2025

A detailed view of the Liquid Metal Dispensing technology. Photo: WINT Design Lab | photos by Michelle Mantel. WINT Design Lab, which focuses on sustainable product innovations, and electronics firm Fraunhofer IZM have partnered to produce a lamp that can change its brightness when the user presses the surface’s stretchable textile. “Soft Interfaces” uses a liquid metal dispensing technology placed […]

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E-textiles can be electronic musical instruments

September 18th, 2024

Researchers Dr. Sophie Skach and Dr. Victor Shepardson have been doing research into fabrics, as part of their work in the Intelligent Instruments Lab, University of Iceland. Recently, they devised a set of smart fabrics that can produce sounds like musical instruments when people handle them, producing sounds comparable to ASMR scratches and water sloshes.  These fabrics can sense […]

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NC State researchers develop touch-sensitive fabric

April 14th, 2017

Researchers at North Carolina (NC) State University have developed elastic, touch-sensitive fibers with the ability to interface with electronic devices. Michael Dickey, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at NC State and the author of the study says, “We have created soft and stretchable fibers that can detect touch, as well as strain and […]

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