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INCREDIBLY SMART TEXTILES

Smart fabrics and interactive textiles are being developed for the medical, military and safety & protective markets, and will eventually find their way into mainstream apparel and other consumer products. The global market for smart fabrics and interactive technologies is expected to reach $1.8 billion by 2015.

The technology exists for fabrics to do incredible things, including monitoring bioactivity of the wearer of PPE, administering medication and congealing a bleeding wound.

To create commercially viable products, the key is to find ways to adapt the technology to the fabric, which requires networking and the establishment of collaborative partnering between reseachers and private industry.

From IFAI's Specialty Fabrics Review magazine. Read the full article. right arrow

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