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- Nanotechnology-based smart yarn for soldiers
- Chinese and U.S. researchers have developed a carbon nanotube-coated smart yarn which can conduct electricity and be woven into textiles to detect blood or to monitor health. According to one of the lead researchers, today's smart textiles, which are made of metallic or optical fibers, are fragile and not comfortable....
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Smart and interactive textile structures
- It's not the first time that I'm writing about smart textiles -- check here or there for previous stories. But today, let's look at the work of Lena Berglin, a Swedish PhD student who is creating multifunctional textiles based on smart materials. She already has developed an intelligent glove, capable...
- Blog posts 2008-11-29
- Smart fabrics and interactive textiles
- 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 that monitor your heart, measure the chemical composition of your body fluids or keep track of you...
- Blog posts 2008-10-15
- Haptic simulation of virtual textiles
- Periodically, researchers want to improve our lives of online shoppers. It is easy to choose colors and sizes of clothes on many websites, but it's impossible to touch the material. So, European scientists are using a virtual reality technology, haptic simulation, to reproduce the sense of touch when interacting with...
- Blog posts 2006-11-03
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- TextileNet 3.48 (Windows)
- TextileNet is designed for MRP, warehouse, logistic and distribution operation of textiles material supplier, fabric converter, spinning mill, weaving or knitting manufacturer. Raw material like yarn, filament, wool or grey goods. In view of the keep increasing price of textile material around the world, material resources planning become an important...
- Software downloads 2009-10-23
- Berendsen Increases Earnings by 2% and Reduces Auditing Costs Through Automation and Expanded Visibility
- A/S rents, launders, and supplies textiles and hygiene solutions to customers in the private and public sectors. Dynamic and flexible pricing is vital in this competitive market, where Berendsen serves more than 50,000 customers in Denmark. It needed to deploy an application infrastructure built on modern technology to ease growing...
- Case studies 2009-08-01
- Textile Manufacturer Uses Hosted Filtering Service to Instantly Eliminate Plague of Spam
- Johnstons of Elgin, which makes cashmere and other fine textiles in northern Scotland, was receiving up to 1 million unwanted e-mail messages a day. The spam clogged data lines, crashed server computers, overwhelmed numerous internal solutions, and diminished employee productivity. Efforts to stem the spam were ineffective, and some proposals...
- Case studies 2009-03-01
- Cyberoam Accomplishes Atul Chemical's Complex Security Objectives
- Atul Ltd is a member of Lalbhai Group, one of the oldest business houses of India, with interests mainly in textiles and chemicals. Atul Chemical's network comprises Multiple LANs which consist of two ISP links (RIL, BSNL) that provide separate Internet access facilities for its diverse end users. They needed...
- Case studies 2009-01-08
- Studio-Scrap 2 (Windows)
- Studio-Scrap allows you to realize your creative ideas with ease. You can easily produce : Beautiful layouts to show off the most of your pictures, Random montages for framing your family photos, Calendars, Greeting cards, birthday cards ..., Personalized Post cards, Announcements Studio Scrap is a scrapbooking software that allows...
- Software downloads 2009-01-04
- Smart fabrics and interactive textiles
- Smart fabrics and interactive textilesPatentI am very excited because in the next year personal location will be profitable when it comes to clothing, and i am lucky enough to own the intellectual property which incorporates it in the best possible way from a marketing and consumer standpoint... any other manufacturers...
- Discussion threads 2008-10-19
- Martinelli Ginetto S.p.a. Integrates New Companies Into IT Infrastructure in Just 15 Days
- Martinelli Textile wanted to implement a model project in all Magitex Group companies and rapidly integrate accounting functions with the textiles production software already used by companies in the group. The challenge was to define a set of operations and data conversion tasks that allow the company to rapidly assimilate...
- Case studies 2008-09-01
- Alpaca Screensaver 1.0 (Windows)
- The Alpaca Vicugna pacos is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It resembles a small llama in superficial appearance. Alpacas are kept in herds that graze on the level heights of the Andes of Ecuador, southern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Chile at an altitude of 3500 to 5000...
- Software downloads 2008-03-24
- Nanotechnology-based self-cleaning fabrics
- A recent American Chemical Society's Weekly PressPac briefly describes how Australian researchers have used nanotechnology to develop 'self-cleaning' wool and silk fabrics (scroll to article #4 in the PressPac). The researchers 'prepared wool fabrics with and without a nanoparticle coating composed of anatase titanium dioxide, a substance that is known...
- Blog posts 2008-02-12
- Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'
- Gates misses the point on 'creative capitalism'It is not quite so black and whiteI believe in Capitalism, but it is in the interest of companies not to abuse their employees, and to try and provide a good environment for them. This does not mean providing foreign aid, but just...
- Discussion threads 2008-01-25
- E-textiles to monitor your health
- E-textiles to monitor your healthREVery interesting article. Progress in the field of health on hand. Site about medicines drugs http://cheapibuprofenxr.blogspot.com
- Discussion threads 2008-01-21
- LiSA, a robot assistant for life sciences
- We've all read for years that mobile assistant robots would help us to take over repetitive and boring work. Surprisingly, there are very few robots able to do this. This is why the German government has launched an initiative to develop safe and cost effective robotic assistants. For example, LiSA...
- Blog posts 2008-01-07
- McAfee Spam Filter Improves IT Department Performance at Berendsen
- Berendsen Textil Service is a value added provider of textiles and hygiene articles to hotels, restaurants, hospitals, nursing homes and other public institutions in 9 European countries. The company had a conventional email scanning system, but they did not have a solution that was capable of meeting the challenges faced...
- Case studies 2007-11-11
- News to know: Leopard launch; Microsoft and Facebook; BlackBerry converts; Scripting bugs
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microsoft's $240 million says Facebook no fad after all. Mary Jo Foley: Are you surprised? Microsoft beats Google with Facebook deal. Dan Farber: Google execs on MySpace, Facebook deals. Google’s Sergey Brin: ‘We don’t need to own everything…’ Techmeme. ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- E-textiles to monitor your health
- Virginia Tech VT researchers have been busy developing efficient e-textiles -- electronic textiles and clothing with embedded wires and sensors -- for six years now. Their computerized clothing can monitor your movements, sensing if you're walking, running, standing, or sitting down. Of course, this kind of clothing has a wide...
- Blog posts 2007-10-24
- Nanotechnology on the catwalk
- This event didnt take place in Paris or Milano, but at Cornell University during their Cornell Design League fashion show on April 21. Its now official: "nanotechnology has entered the fashion world." Fashion designers and fiber scientists have unified their efforts at Cornell to show a two-toned gold dress and...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
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