A soft, flexible sensor system created with electrically conductive yarns could help map problematic pressure points in the socket of an amputee's prosthetic limb, researchers from North Carolina ...

Finger Bend is a unique DIY Arduino powered textile flex sensor, created as part of the Swatch Exchange, enabling you to trigger actions by simply bending your finger. Created by the team at Willpower ...

Textiles are venturing further into the health sector with a new development. The Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, also known as Empa, in conjunction with the research ...

[Admar] is a software developer who was introduced to e-textiles in 2011. The bug firmly took hold, and these days he gives e-textile workshops at Eindhoven University of Technology. Here, students ...

For years, roboticists and prosthetists have dreamed of a day when mechanical limbs could restore both function and sense of touch for a person missing a limb. However, in developing a sensor that ...

Textiles, integral to human life for centuries, have recently garnered significant interest for electronic applications. However, traditional fabrication methods for electronic textiles (E-textiles) ...

A soft, flexible sensor system created with electrically conductive yarns could help map problematic pressure points in the socket of an amputee's prosthetic limb, researchers report in a new study. A ...